Nicholas Bodley wrote:

>
> 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.)

That was the case for most of the minority languages of the Soviet Union
-- see Comrie's brief summary in WWS.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...