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From: jsa@tut.fi (Jari Salo)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,sci.lang
Subject: Re: Computers and human languages (was Re: What is a byte)
Message-ID: <1788@korppi.tut.fi>
Date: Mon, 21-Sep-87 11:06:12 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 21 11:06:12 1987
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Xref: mnetor comp.std.internat:257 sci.lang:1443

in article <7187@reed.UUCP>, eeyore@reed.UUCP (joshua samuel honig guenter ii) says:
> Xref: tut comp.std.internat:168 sci.lang:1049
> question 2. does anybody know if finnish is written in cyrillic in the karelian
> s.f.s.r.?

	The finnish uses the normal latin alphabet with minor modifications.
	A_with_two_dots, O_with_two_dots and swedish O.

	To my knowledge finnish has NEVER been written in cyrillic.
	When under russian power official documents were written
	using cyrillic alphabet, but the language used was not finnish.

	Many people living in karelia s.f.s.r. speak both russian
	and finnish, but they HAVE NOT (and propably never will) mixed
	those two languages.

	Anyway, writing finnish using cyrillic alphabet would be just
	about as sane as to write english using katagana alphabet;
	you'd propably have to modify the original words a bit to make
	them fit to the new alphabet.
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