Re: OT: NATLANG: Romanian orthography question

I enjoied it very much.  I had no idea that Romanian
(even when written in Cirilic0 had so many N-tildes
and barred-D's.  It is a truely peculiar orthography.
;-)

Adam

--- Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 26, 2003 1:11 PM I wrote:
>
> > In the earliest Romanian/Moldavian Cyrillic
> documents we also
> > find _ѫ_ ("big yus") for _în_. If I have time,
> I'll post this text to the List
> > later.
>
> Here it is (UTF-8):
> __________________________________
> First written evidence of Romanian and Moldavian
> languages we find in a letter
> by boier Neacşu sent from Câmpulung to Braşov
> dated by year 1521, telling about
> Turkish troops moving along Danube. The whole letter
> is written in Cyrillics.
> Here is an extract from this letter:
> "И пак дау щире
> домніетале за
> лукрул турчилор, кум амь
> аузит еу ÐºÑ  Ñ«Ð¼Ð¿Ñ Ñ€Ð°Ñ‚ÑƒÐ» ау
> ешит ден Софіѧ ши аиминтрѣ
> ну е ши сѣу дус ѫсус пре ДунÑ
> ре. И пак ÑÑ  щіи
> домніята ÐºÑ  ау венит ун ѡм де
> ла Никопое де міе мѣу спус кÑ
> ау Ð²Ñ Ð·ÑƒÑ‚ ку ѡкіи лои
> ÐºÑ  ау трекут чѣле корабіи че
> щіи ши домніята пре Ð”ÑƒÐ½Ñ Ñ€Ðµ
> ѫсус. И пак ÑÑ  щіи кÑ
> Ð±Ð°Ð³Ñ  ден тоте ѡрашеле ÐºÑ Ñ‚Ðµ 50
> де ѡмин ÑÑ  фіе ѫн ажутор Ñ«
> корабіи."
>
> (From Алисова Т.Б. и др.
> Введение в романскую
> филологию. // Introduction to
> Romance Philology. Moscow, 1987; translation of the
> Russian part of the text
> into English is mine.)
> __________________________________
>
> Enjoy it,
> -- Yitzik

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Fached il prori ul pañeveju mutu chu djul atexindu.
-- Carrajena proverb

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