Hello,
A similar question to the question of new Chinese characters and new versions of
characters for Lakota, but an order of magnitude larger, is the question of ongoing or
about-to-hit-us script changes in Central Asia.
In the 1920s-1940s, under a series of Soviet language policy changes, many Central
Asian languages were converted from Arabic script to Roman to Cyrillic (or some
different permutation even). Jewish Central Asian languages were converted from
Hebrew to Cyrillic.
Now as the independent republics take control, there is evidence that the abandonment
of Cyrillic has started, and there is a return to Arabic script. But not "plain
vanilla" Arabic script, but the extended Arabic scripts with extra symbols......
This gives Unicode an odd "legacy code" problem, indeed.---Elaine Keown
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