LittleKey Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5953 days ago 146 posts - 153 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Japanese
| 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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Siberiano Tetraglot Senior Member Russian Federation one-giant-leap.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6494 days ago 465 posts - 696 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, ItalianC1, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Serbian
| 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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Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6035 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds
| 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. |
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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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furyou_gaijin Senior Member Japan Joined 6387 days ago 540 posts - 631 votes Speaks: Latin*
| Message 44 of 66 17 January 2009 at 5:39am | IP Logged |
Siberiano wrote:
лэт эвриўан юз ўотэвэ скрипт хи лайкс |
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How very politically incorrect... That should have been 'хи ор ши'!!! :-)
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 45 of 66 18 January 2009 at 4:48am | IP Logged |
хД
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telephos Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 6268 days ago 29 posts - 31 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Russian Studies: Norwegian, Ancient Greek
| 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.
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That's not a problem since there exist nasal vowels in the Cyrillic alphabet : Ѧ Ѫ
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Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6035 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds
| 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.
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That's not a problem since there exist nasal vowels in the Cyrillic alphabet : Ѧ Ѫ |
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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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telephos Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 6268 days ago 29 posts - 31 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Russian Studies: Norwegian, Ancient Greek
| 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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