jglavy wrote:

>
> Greetings all.
>
> I remember reading somewhere that for a few years in the late 1940s
> or early 1950s, Abkhaz and Ossetian, instead of being Cyrillicized as
> with other Caucasian/Turkic/Ugric,etc languages, had Mxedruli adapted
> to their phonologies for a few years and then they were Cyrillicized.

Comrie WWS 783 mentions but does not exemplify this; maybe some of his
references will have what you're looking for.

> Apparently Ossetian added 6 new letters namely one for a
> palatalized /t/, /d/, /t/ and /tH/ (H denoting asperation). The two
> forms I have seen are Mxedruli დ, ტ, თ with either
> a tilde or grave
> accent over them, and for /g/, /k/, /kH/, written with Mxedruli
> ვ, ქ,
> კ, with what looked like the tilde written through the letter.
> (my apologies if the Arial Unicode font doesn't make it through)

Not to me, but what do you see when I send the text back to you?

> Abkhaz seems to have a plethora of new digraphs/compounds that
> consist mainly of Mxedruli letters followed by what looks like a
> schwa and "o".
>
> In any event, would anyone have any sources/titles that would
> indicate the Mxedruli scripts for both these languages?
>
> I have no access to university libraries over here in Japan, but I
> will have access to the UCLA library when I visit California in
> July.
>
> I am guessing that one source will be Klimov's "Einfuehrung in die
> kaukasische Sprachwissenschaft", so if anyone knows of any OTHER
> source, or has a list indicating the new Mxedruli letters/compounds
> they'd care to post, I'd be most grateful.

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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...