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Article #121Re: Puree Mongole
From: Col. G. L. Sicherman
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 1990 17:03
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 1990 17:03
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In article <1990Jun5.112535.5788@agate.berkeley.edu>, dankg@volcano writes: > > Local difference spans from simply number of character set to > justification: Arabic and Hebrew writes from left to right. Mongolian writes > up to down. ... Whoa! Modern Mongolian uses the New Turkic Alphabet, devised by Russians and based on the Russian Alphabet. The old Mongolian script, which I think was based on Persian, did indeed run top-to-bottom. But with the current derussianization of Mongolia, I wouldn't be surprised if the Mongols switched to Roman, which is better suited for Turkic languages than Cyrillic. -:- "Emiyel uige, Verrier ende!" --advertising slogan -- Col. G. L. Sicherman gls@odyssey.att.COM
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!rutgers!att!cbnewsh!gls From: gls@odyssey.att.com (Col. G. L. Sicherman) Newsgroups: comp.std.misc Subject: Re: Puree Mongole Keywords: International, character Message-ID: <1990Jun8.170321.7830@cbnewsh.att.com> Date: 8 Jun 90 17:03:21 GMT References: <1990Jun5.112535.5788@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: gls@cbnewsh.att.com (Col. G. L. Sicherman) Organization: Verrier Service Lines: 18