Hello Anto'nio, Thursday, January 2, 2003, 3:27:50 PM, you wrote:
AnMTl> On 2002.12.27, 13:55, Valeriy E. Ushakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Constitution says that the republics shall have the right to institute >> their own state languages. This law puts a constraint on that right. >> My understanding is that if a republic wants to institute a state >> language that is not written in cyrillic, the decision must be made at >> a federal level. AnMTl> What will happend to hebrew-spelled yiddish in Еврейский а. о.? nothing new. the political direction of this new law is only about planning migration of tatar lang. to latin alphabet. I think, that jews will ignore it at all. AnMTl> (Or is AnMTl> it just republics and not "federation subjects" at large? And, if so, AnMTl> why?) it's not a republic. it Evreskaya autonomous area. It is a federation subject AnMTl> Will this bring even more new chracters to the Cyrillic blocks? no -- Best regards, Serge mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]