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Cyrillic versus Latin script

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LittleKey
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 Message 41 of 66
08 January 2009 at 10:53pm | IP Logged 
i prefer the latin alphabet, especially seeing as English is my native language, and i don't know any language that uses cyrillic (although i can read it). something interesting though, is one time when there was a word in latin script, with a cyrillic written version, and i didn't know how to pronounce it until i read it in cyrillic. i don't remember what the word was (i don't think it was English) and it started with a "C". When I read the cyrillic version, i realized it started with a "Ts" sound.
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 Message 42 of 66
08 January 2009 at 11:48pm | IP Logged 
LittleKey: I guess it was "center" => центр (tsentr), another example: "cerebral" => церебральный (tserebralnyi)
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 Message 43 of 66
14 January 2009 at 3:50am | IP Logged 
Siberiano wrote:
Гайз, Ай синк лэт зэ азэр славик лэнгўэджес би риттен ин зэйр префёрт скрипт, энд лэт эвриўан юз ўотэвэ скрипт хи лайкс. ;) Ай стронгли саппорт зэ айдиа оф инглиш ин сайриллик! Зыс ўил би дэмн кул! Бат ўи'лл нид Беларуссиан "ў", Бурятиан "ө" энд э фью аөэр лэттэрс фор пёфект фанэтикс.


Ай файнд ит хард ту ъндерстанд мост оф йор пост, бикоуз оф дъ дифрент уейс Кирилик ис юзд ин дифрънт славик ленгуиджис.
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 Message 44 of 66
17 January 2009 at 5:39am | IP Logged 
Siberiano wrote:
лэт эвриўан юз ўотэвэ скрипт хи лайкс


How very politically incorrect... That should have been 'хи ор ши'!!! :-)
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 Message 45 of 66
18 January 2009 at 4:48am | IP Logged 
хД
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 Message 46 of 66
04 March 2009 at 1:04am | IP Logged 
Chung wrote:
Russian doesn't have nasal vowels. Polish still has nasal vowels.


That's not a problem since there exist nasal vowels in the Cyrillic alphabet : Ѧ Ѫ
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 Message 47 of 66
04 March 2009 at 1:20am | IP Logged 
telephos wrote:
Chung wrote:
Russian doesn't have nasal vowels. Polish still has nasal vowels.


That's not a problem since there exist nasal vowels in the Cyrillic alphabet : Ѧ Ѫ


I've never seen the first symbol and the latter ( nosovka = nasal ) was dropped some 20 years before my birth. I've only seen it in old texts.

These are relics, the Cyrillic doesn't have nasals. Not the Bulgarian, nor the Russian version of it.

Edited by Sennin on 04 March 2009 at 1:33am

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 Message 48 of 66
04 March 2009 at 4:05am | IP Logged 
These letters were present in the alphabet invented by Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century. I wanted to show that having nasals in the Cyrillic script is not a problem since the first language written in this alphabet, i.e. Old Slavonic, had 2 nasal vowels like Polish. If we were to write Polish in the Cyrillic alphabet, we could restore them.


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