Fwd: Cyrillic for All

[curt fredric woolhiser]

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>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:33:28 -0500 (EST)
>From: "Harold F. Schiffman" <haroldfs at ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
>To: Language Policy-List <lgpolicy-list at ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
>Subject: Cyrillic for All
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>New York Times, December 13, 2002, World Briefing: Europe
>
>    RUSSIA: CYRILLIC FOR ALL
>
>President Vladimir V. Putin signed a law to make Cyrillic the mandatory
>alphabet of Russian and the various languages of Russia's many ethnic
>republics.  Under the law, other alphabets can be used only if approved
>under special federal law. The written languages in republics like
>Chechnya and Tatarstan, for example, have varied over history between
>Arabic, Latin and Cyrillic script. Tatarstan, which has pressed for
>autonomy from Moscow, has recently begun to switch back to the Latin
>script. Chechnya has used Latin script since it declared independence in
>1991, three years before war broke out with Russia.  Sophia Kishkovsky
>(NYT)

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