On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 00:54:23 +1100, David Gerard <fun(a)thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
A question:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossetic_language says that
Ossetic can use Latin script as well as Cyrillic script.
...been using it in 1920s. There was a general Soviet policy of the
1920s to use Latin script in local languages, and even Russian was
planned to latinization. But then Stalin came to rule, having other
points of view.
Does anyone still
use Latin?
Noone ever, except situations when Cyrillic keyboard is not available.
When it's not available, they use "translit" -- a horrible intuitive
latinization. :)
Are there important texts in Latin?
I have never seen any Latin script book in Ossetic in all my life. I
only know, that they have existed.
Is there a one-to-one
correspondence between the Cyrillic and Latin spellings in Ossetic, so that
you change one to the other automatically?
Yes.
Still human post-edition might be needed after such change.
Sl.
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Esperu cxiam!