Re: Cyrillic-Rokbeigalmki Question

Steg Belsky wrote:

> I decided that in the Modern Period of the Rokbeigalm's history, they
> live in the Pacific....so therefore, one of the first syllabic script
> other than their own that they would probably encounter would be
> Cyrillic.  Maybe there can be some kind of big Cold-War thing happening
> with them too, but i don't know anything about the Modern Period's
> history yet.
I doubt it.  It depends on where you're talking about, but Russia got to
the Pacific relatively late, only barely by 1650, while the Portuguese and
the Dutch had reached China and Japan much earlier, say early to mid
1500's  (to the extent that in Japan prior to Tokugawa crackdown a little after
1600,  owning European artwork and wearing crucifixes was the latest
fashion, among the elite at least). Most Asians would have been much
more likely to at least be exposed to books or objects with Latin script
(or even Greek script, as I believe Matteo Ricci described some Greek
writing on a church bell in IIRC Peking), rather than Cyrillic.

And if you're talking about the Pacific islanders themselves (rather than
those who just live around the Pacific), their first contacts were almost
entirely with Western European explorers (e.g. Spanish conquistadors in the
Philipines, Captain Cook in the late 1700s, etc.).

(I'm assuming here by "modern" you mean, say, after the Middle Ages,
which is where most scholars start talking about "Modern" Europe, ca.
1300 AD)

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