[Wikipedia-l] os.wikipedia.org

[David Gerard]

V. Ivanov (amikeco at gmail.com) [050202 01:09]:

> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 00:54:23 +1100, David Gerard <fun at 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. 
> > 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.


I was just wondering :-) It occurred to me that we have some wikis in two
scripts, e.g. Kurdish (ku.wikipedia.org), which is the same words in Latin
and Arabic. But if Latin use is negligible, it's probably not worth special
effort.


- d.