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Slavic vowels
- To: John Cowan <cowan@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Raymond <eric@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Tiedemann <est@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>
- Subject: Slavic vowels
- From: Ivan A Derzhanski <cbmvax!uunet!COGSCI.ED.AC.UK!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!iad>
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1992 15:07:51 GMT
- In-Reply-To: "61510::GILSON"'s message of Mon, 10 Feb 1992 08:33:00 EST <9603.9202101417@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
- Reply-To: Ivan A Derzhanski <cbmvax!uunet!COGSCI.ED.AC.UK!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!iad>
- Sender: Lojban list <cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!LOJBAN>
> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1992 08:33:00 EST
> From: "61510::GILSON" <gilson%61510.decnet@MIL.NAVY.NRL.CCF1>
>
> > There is a Cyrillic letter that looks like a backwards
> >N, and another that looks like the two lower-case letters "bi" written
> >close together.
>
> The former is a clear Lojban "i" but the latter is only found in Russian,
as well as Byelorussian, Polish, Upper and Lower Sorbian (though I'm
not totally sure about these) and Ukrainian (actually what it has is
not exactly the same thing, but is very similar),
> and not present in Ivan's native Bulgarian, if I recall.
Your recollection is correct. But I have a next_to_native Russian.
Ivan