Re: What is an alphabet? Re: Optimum number of symbols
| From: | Y.Penzev <isaac@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 30, 2002, 9:33 |
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Smbody wrote:
> > I once played around with using Cyrillic letters for Chinese...
There is a standard cyrillization of Mandarine developed IIRC by a Russian
(Soviet) linguist Y.Polivanov in 1930's. It works quite well. It uses no
diacritics except for tones, but makes it quite easy to decode the actual
pronounciation in spite of non-traditional use of some letters: Cyr-O stands
for both [o] and [uo], Cyr-YU = [iou], and [y] is spelt Cyr-YU +
Cyr-IKRATKOE.
Pavel, any comments?
Yitzik
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P.S. Oh, yes... We've got our local network at the college reorganized,
that's why I send messages from my new e-mail address isaac@kcu.org.ua . But
for anything personal I'm still available at my old address -- it
readdresses all the mail. During summer vacations (since June 14) I think
only the address at ukr.net will be reachable.
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