From: Serge Nesterovitch (felix@bst.ru)
Date: Wed Jan 15 2003 - 00:37:02 EST
Hello Anto'nio,
Thursday, January 2, 2003, 3:27:50 PM, you wrote:
AnMTl> On 2002.12.27, 13:55, Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru> wrote:
>> Constitution says that the republics shall have the right to institute
>> their own state languages. This law puts a constraint on that right.
>> My understanding is that if a republic wants to institute a state
>> language that is not written in cyrillic, the decision must be made at
>> a federal level.
AnMTl> What will happend to hebrew-spelled yiddish in Еврейский а. о.?
nothing new.
the political direction of this new law is only about planning
migration of tatar lang. to latin alphabet.
I think, that jews will ignore it at all.
AnMTl> (Or is
AnMTl> it just republics and not "federation subjects" at large? And, if so,
AnMTl> why?)
it's not a republic. it Evreskaya autonomous area.
It is a federation subject
AnMTl> Will this bring even more new chracters to the Cyrillic blocks?
no
-- Best regards, Serge mailto:felix@bst.ru
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