From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 1714
Date: 2003-09-16
>That was the case for most of the minority languages of the Soviet Union
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:59:52 +0200, Marco Cimarosti
> <marco.cimarosti@...> wrote:
>
> > Hmmm... I proposed that term to my friend Yusuf, a communist militant
> > born from Egyptian Christian parents, and it took me my best karate move
> > to calm him down.
>
> I'm thinking about Turkish and Azeri (?) history. (The latter group of
> people have used three alphabets, iirc even within living memory of the
> elders. In order, they were Arabic, Cyrillic, and (extended?) Latin,
> afaik.)