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From: dankg@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (Dan KoGai)
Newsgroups: comp.std.misc
Subject: Re: Puree Mongole
Keywords: International, character
Message-ID: <1990Jun10.213516.10053@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 10 Jun 90 21:35:16 GMT
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In article <1990Jun8.170321.7830@cbnewsh.att.com> gls@odyssey.att.com (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
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>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.

	Whoa!  You completely missed the point:  Mongolian is just an example
and they still use top->down scripts.  It sounds to me just because Turks are
now using alphabets enough reason to abondon entire arabic script.  Plus
Mongolians have little tie with Persians (the grammer is completely different,
I heared).
	And I'm tired of this kind of romanization status quo:  Even Japanese
could've switched to Romaji, or phonetic spelling by roman chars.  But they
simply didn't do so and instead they made phonetic-to-kanji converter.
	After these days of living in America, I found myself much more
confortable speaking, listening, and writing in English.  Still, I can read
Japanese much faster because it's densier.  Some of the Japanese can read
200-page book within 5 minutes and this kind of thing is impossible for
roman-script languages.  Each language has its own virtues and we should
help, not abondon, those virtues.

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