On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, John Hudson wrote:
> At 02:48 9/27/2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>
> >A lot of time ago, someone on this list mentioned a language, written in the
> >Cyrillic alphabet, which employed letter "Q", taken from the Latin alphabet.
> >
> >Which language is it?
>
> Kurdish. The common Cyrillic orthography includes four Latin letterforms
> that are, as far as I know, unique to Kurdish:
>
> U+0051, U+0071 Capital, Small Q
> U+0057, U+077 Capital, Small W
>
> John Hudson
>
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> Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
>
> Type is something that you can pick up and hold in your hand.
> - Harry Carter
>
>
Thursday, Septembe 27, 2001
Besides Kurdish, the section on tansliteration of non-Slavic languages
using Cyrillic the ALA-LC romanization tables (1997) shows Q used with
four other languages: Aisor, Chechen (the 1862 and 1908 orthographies but
not the 1938 one), Dargwa (Uslar) and Lak (1864 but not 1938). For Kurdish
Q seems also to have an alternative glyph that appears as "O" followed by
a vertical bar which is also used with Lezghian (Uslar).
Regards,
Jim Agenbroad ( jage@LOC.gov )
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