Re: FWD [OT but interesting] Arctic people seek common alphabet

 --- John Cowan wrote:

> > The 100,000 speakers of Inuktitut currently use three different alphabets
> > - one based on the Roman one used for English, one on Cyrillic, and
> > another representing Inuktitut syllables.
>
> [...] The Cyrillic-users are in Russia (obviously) and are Yupik-speakers.
> The problems with syllabic vs. Latin alphabet users, OTOH, are well
> established.
As a matter of fact, since the number of Yupik-speakers in Russia amounts only
a few hundred, subdivided into three mutually not always understandable
dialects, I am sort of surprised that the language is used for writing at all.
Usually, such small languages are used for speaking only, while the writing is
rather done in Russian or another language.

Jan

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