Re[2]: Fw: Karelian ASSR

[Serge Nesterovitch]

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 Åâðåéñêèé à. î.?
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


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Re: Fw: Karelian ASSR

[Valeriy E. Ushakov]

On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 01:43:48 +, Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote:

 due to the new language law of the Russian Federation that makes
 Cyrillics compulsory for all the languages within the Federation.

That's a very controversial law, but one correction is due
nonetheless: for all *state* languages.

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.

SY, Uwe
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