On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 04:55:19PM +0300, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 01:43:48 +0000, 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!
