Re: OT: Russian in ASCII?

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Isaac Penzev <isaacp@U...> wrote:
> Alexander Savenkov scripsit:
> > Here's the system which is used daily in Russia:
> >
> > a b v g d e yo zh z i y k l m n o p r s t u f kh ts ch sh sch ' y
' e yu ya

It feels strange to use y to mark the palatalizing vowels
ya yo yu, the diphthongizing i-breve and the non-palatalizing
bI.  It would make more sense IMHO to write ja jo ju and
-i or maybe -j for i-breve.

Then again, I don't know Russian.



-- Christian Thalmann

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