Re: Which Character sets to support for kazakh cyrillic alphabet ?

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Wed Apr 22 2009 - 13:24:43 CDT

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    On 4/22/2009 8:51 AM, Andreas Prilop wrote:
    > On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, David Starner wrote:
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    >
    >>> Estonian is not a Baltic language.
    >>>
    >> Unless they've moved Estonia since I last checked, it is most
    >> certainly a Baltic (=pertaining to the Baltic states) language, even
    >> if it's not a Baltic (=subgroup of Indo-European) language.
    >>
    >
    > "Baltic language" is a linguistic term like "Slavic language" or
    > "Romance language".
    > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_languages#cite_note-0
    >
    >
    >
    >
    A similar ambiguity applies to the term "Scandinavian". As a geographic
    term it includes Finland where a linguistically unrelated language is
    spoken (not to mention minority languages).

    A./

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