Re: Serbian language (Cyrillic and Latin versions)
[email protected] Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:07:12 -0800
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Serbian language has 30 sounds, and each of those sounds has a coresponding letter of alphabet - either latin or cyrillic, so it is 1:1 relation, and should be fairly easy to convert automatically with few exceptions: sounds lj and nj (as presented in latin alphabet) as they are represented as single characters in cyrillic alphabet (љ / њ) and that would affect sort order of every list (but that would be case anyway as cyrillic alphabet is in different order). Also, there is an old convention (and incorrect one) that sound represented by cyrillic ђ or latin đ might be represented by dj - and that might cause trouble when converting back and forth. Names of foreign places and/or people are translated in Serbian language (Шекспир=Ć ekspir is Shakespeare) and are treated as any other word ! As for the Serbocroatian language, it is not the truth that sh Wikipedia has not be started - it has, and about a year before either Serbian, Croatian or Bosnian Wikipedia. Due to the fact that Serbocroatian language was not listed as a language in any classification since 1992. and it was decided to cancel its development and move its content elsewhere. I am native speaker of Serbocroatian, was taught to use it throughout my education, and am stil using it in everyday communication with my family and friends, but it did not make sense to me to insist on such naming when it is not recognized as an official name by anyone else !