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

 --- Pawe£ Josad skrzypszy:

> > 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.
Hey, that's an idea! Why didn't that occur to me earlier? I think I'm going to
borrow/steal your idea!

> 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)
Have you ever seen the Old Permic script? It was devised somewhere in de Middle
Ages by a missionary named Stefan Khrap for the Komi language. You can even
download a font for it, called "Abur Times"...
I have also be playing with the idea of applying this "Abur" for Hattic (after
all, the Hattic Republic is not far from the Komi Republic; it more or less
fills the gap with Udmurtia). However, I finally decided to have my own script.
Aren't there people in the Komi Republic who like the idea of reintroducing
this script for their language?

Jan

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