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Re: Hattic script (was: T-Shirt Take 2)

From:Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...>
Date:Friday, October 4, 2002, 17:46
Helo,

> The most > logical choice > would be to abolish Cyrillic in favour of Khadurian (the name > of both the > language family and the script), but I still didn't work out > how such a script > could have emerged, and how it succeeded to survive the > Soviet Union. To be > honest, I still have no idea. But since the whole thing is > just fantasy anyway, > I think I may forgive myself a few historical improbabilities.
I think there's a pretty plausible (I think) scenario. Hattic could have used Cyrillic in USSR times, but the post-collapse times see a serious surge of anti-Russian linguistic sntiments, which would induce someone to dig up an old Hattic alphabet devised by some half-forgotten monk in the neck of the woods, and perforce introduce it. Actually this is the current situation in most former-USSR republics save Belarus (I think; probably Tajikistan as well?). They have mostly been abolishing the Cyrillic alphabet and pursuing derussification policies - well now some have (like Kyrgyzstan) realized that the Russian-speaking population is the social base for at least something close to an economy and they have reversed the trend somewhat. But in fact several languages in Russian proper are also envisaging switching from the kirillitsa to something else (Tatar, to give one example) Pavel -- Pavel Iosad pavel_iosad@mail.ru Is mall a mharcaicheas am fear a bheachdaicheas --Scottish proverb

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