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From: hmj@tut.fi (Matti J{rvinen)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,sci.lang
Subject: Re: Computers and human languages (was Re: What is a byte)
Message-ID: <1787@kuukkeli.tut.fi>
Date: Mon, 21-Sep-87 11:03:23 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 21 11:03:23 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 24-Sep-87 00:36:49 EDT
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Reply-To: hmj@kuukkeli.UUCP (Hannu-Matti J{rvinen)
Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
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Keywords: Finnish, Karelian
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In article <421@tutor.tut.UUCP> eal@tutor.UUCP (Lehtim{ki Erkki) writes:
>In article <7187@reed.UUCP> eeyore@reed.UUCP (joshua samuel honig guenter ii) writes:
>>question 2. does anybody know if finnish is written in cyrillic in the karelian
>>s.f.s.r.?
>
>They don't actually speak finnish in the Karelian s.f.s.r., i think they
>speak some of the karelian dialects, East-Karelian or Ruski-Karelian,
>i am not sure.

They use same alphabet than we here in Finland. The language is Finnish,
same words and grammar.  They speak Karelian dialect, but the written
text is the same than in Finland. I have two copies of newspaper
"Neuvosto-Karjala" (Soviet Karelia) printed in Petroskoi and the
language is the same, but they do have some odd soviet phrases :-)

Finnish is never written in cyrillic except some prayers' books written
around 1600 for Orthodox priests to make them Lutherian.


-- 
Hannu-Matti Jarvinen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Project EAST - European Advanced Software Technology
hmj@tut.fi, hmj@tut.uucp, hmj@tut.funet (tut.ARPA is not the same computer).