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| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6156 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes  2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 9 of 66 08 March 2008 at 1:31am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Mongolian seems to work just fine with cyrillic.
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| Taiga Diglot Groupie Australia Joined 6150 days ago 81 posts - 85 votes 5 sounds Speaks: English, Spanish Studies: Russian, Serbo-Croatian | Message 10 of 66 08 March 2008 at 6:05am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Actually, I created a modified Cyrillic alphabet for English language xD when I was bored. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| skeeterses Senior Member United States angelfire.com/games5Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6458 days ago 302 posts - 356 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, Spanish | Message 11 of 66 15 March 2008 at 7:25am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Compared to other writing scripts, I would say that Cyrillic is quite easy. Japanese, for instance has 2 alphabets and several thousand Chinese characters that have multiple pronounciations. And with Arabic, its almost impossible to guess the correct sound for each word unless you already know the grammar, because it doesn't have vowels.
If English and some of the Slavic languages seem difficult for spelling, it's because of the inconsistent spelling rules and not the script. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| bushwick Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6084 days ago 407 posts - 443 votes Speaks: German, Croatian*, English, Dutch Studies: French, Japanese | Message 12 of 66 15 March 2008 at 12:59pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
technically, lj, nj and đž are one letter. so your argument fails. it doesn't make cyrillic any more efficient. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Eduard Decaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5865 days ago 166 posts - 170 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Dutch*, NorwegianC1, Swedish, Danish, English, German, ItalianB1, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, French Studies: Portuguese | Message 13 of 66 03 June 2008 at 11:51am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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/me agrees with Bushwick. These three sounds are still considered one letter, quite like the 'ij' (or perhaps ÿ) in Dutch during the last few years.
I have read that the Croats wanted to abolish the fact that lj, nj and dž are considered one letter each, but this would give some problems, as 'lj' and 'lj' (you read it right) can be pronounced differently. Example: the word 'seljak' (peasant) contains lj as two different letters and is pronounced 'sel-jak' (due to historical linguistic reasons), whereas 'ljuba' contains 'lj' as one letter and is pronounced as a palatised 'l'. This difference is obvious in cyrillic as seljak would be spelled with seperate cyrillic letters for 'l' and 'j', though ljuba would be spelled using the љ-letter. Personally I prefer reading Serbian using the Latin script (especially hand-written texts and when using italics), just because it's a lot more friendly to my untrained eye. EDIT: In Croatia you will also find vertically written signs saying 'ljekarna' (pharmacy) written: LJ E K A R N A Edited by Eduard on 03 June 2008 at 11:56am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 5874 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 14 of 66 03 June 2008 at 12:59pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
No wonder it is easy, Cyrillic and Latin scripts are really close relatives. The Cyrillic alphabet first appears at the beginning of the 10th century (AC) and is based on Greek letters. The original script was known as Glagolitsa and though it looks extremely beautiful (personal opinion) it is also very cumbersome and difficult to produce. Throughout the centuries the letters were brought closer to their Latin counterparts. Furthermore, the Latin alphabet also originates in Greek, though it is created much earlier ( 7th century BC or something ).
Is that a fact? :) I am afraid there is a lot of controversy going on about the origins of the Cyrillic alphabet. Take a look at this except from wikipedia:
By the way, may I mention that the top university in Bulgaria is named "St. Clement of Ohrid". Guess why... :) Edited by Sennin on 03 June 2008 at 1:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Russianbear Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6615 days ago 358 posts - 422 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Ukrainian Studies: Spanish | Message 15 of 66 03 June 2008 at 1:11pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I think Cyrillic is probably better than Latin simply because there are more symbols. But then again, scripts with even more symbols are superior to both. Инглыш риттн ын Сериллык вуд рак зъэ моуст. Edited by Russianbear on 03 June 2008 at 2:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Eduard Decaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5865 days ago 166 posts - 170 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Dutch*, NorwegianC1, Swedish, Danish, English, German, ItalianB1, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, French Studies: Portuguese | Message 16 of 66 03 June 2008 at 1:16pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Indeed, the scripts are closely related to each other and Greek, so the 'big difference' is fairly superficial. Once you get used to Cyrillic, it's not that hard to deal with. Sometimes I use Cyrillic (or frankly a heavily distorted version of it) for writing down things I don't want others to be able to read easily.
I have also seen some Macedonian (FYROM) webpages using the Latin script, something which I suspect to be not a big transition because of most Macedonians' knowledge of Serbian and its use of the Latin script. And of course ASCII-coding problems of the past (and present) have a saying in this. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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