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

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
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Pavel Iosad               pavel_iosad@mail.ru

Is mall a mharcaicheas am fear a bheachdaicheas
                 --Scottish proverb

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