Re: Fw: Karelian ASSR
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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Zu Grunde kommen http://www.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/| Ist zu Grunde gehen
Re: Fw: Karelian ASSR
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. What will happend to hebrew-spelled yiddish in Åâðåéñêèé à. î.? (Or is it just republics and not "federation subjects" at large? And, if so, why?) Will this bring even more new chracters to the Cyrillic blocks? -- . Antonio MARTINS-Tuvalkin, trying not to slip off topic | ()| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> || R. Laureano de Oliveira, 64 r/c esq. | PT-1885-050 MOSCAVIDE (LRS) Não me invejo de quem tem | +351 917 511 549 carros, parelhas e montes | http://www.tuvalkin.web.pt/bandeira/ só me invejo de quem bebe | http://pagina.de/bandeiras/ a água em todas as fontes |
Re: Fw: Karelian ASSR
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 04:55:19PM +0300, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote: > 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. So a given language, let's say Karelian, can be written in Cyrillic script (containing cyrillic letters a,e,i,j,o,p,y,c,s, some of them _of course_ pronounced differently than in russian, Karelian has completely different pronunciation after all, plus some few additional latin letters - when Kurdish can, why cannot Karelian - such as b,d,f,g,h,k,l,m,n,r,t,v,z,š,č etc...) and everyone is going to be happy. Just look forward for (dis)unification problems then :-) -- --- | Radovan Garabík http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | --- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
