Errata in language/script list: xUSSR languages

[Kairat A. Rakhim]

Hello,

I have notes about languages of former USSR included in the list.
In 1930th almost all of them have been written in Latin script known as 'Unified New Turkic Alphabet',.or in its derivatives (Common Northern Alphabet etc). It should be emphasized that these Latin-based alphabets contain a number of characters which are not yet encoded in Unicode.

Later these facts was clearly expurgated from publications. For example, you can't find full information about Kazakh (Latin) alphabet even in Kazakh Encyclopedia (It is 14 volumes printed in 1970th). I have got two rare books containing alphabet tables:
- M.I.Isaev. Yazykovoe stroitel'stvo v SSSR=Linguistic building in the USSR. - Moscow, 1979,
- R.S.Gilyarevsky, V.S.Grivnin. Opredelitel' yazykov mira po pis'mennostyam=Handbook for recognition of world languages by script. - 3rd edition. - Moscow, 1965.
There are differences in dates of alphabet transitions in both books, and I skipped them (I hope verify them and publish later with alphabet tables). But chronological orders are the same:

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Language	Scripts in chronological order
Abaza	Latin, Cyrillic
Abkhaz	Cyrillic, Latin, Georgian, Cyrillic
Adygei	Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Altai	Cyrillic, Latin, Cyrillic
Avar	Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Azerbaijani (Azeri)	Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic, → Latin
Balkar	Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Bashkir	Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Buryat	Mongolian, Latin, Cyrillic
Chechen	Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Chukchi	Latin, Cyrillic
Crimean Tatar	Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic, → Latin
Dargwa	Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Dungan	Arabic, Cyrillic
Evenki	Latin, Cyrillic
Ingush	Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Kabardian and Cherkessian	Cyrillic&Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Kalmyk	Mongolian, Cyrillic, Latin, Cyrillic
Karachay	Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Karakalpak	Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Karelian	Cyrillic
Kazakh	Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Khakass	Cyrillic, Latin, Cyrillic
Khanty	Latin, Cyrillic
Kirghiz	Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Komi	Cyrillic, Latin, Cyrillic
Koryak	Latin, Cyrillic
Kumyk	Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Kurdish	Arabic, Armenian, Latin, Cyrillic
Lak	Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Lezghian	Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Mansi	Latin, Cyrillic
Nanai	Latin, Cyrillic
Nenets	Latin, Cyrillic
Nivkh	Latin, Cyrillic
Nogai	Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Ossetic	Georgian&Cyrillic, Armenian, Latin, Cyrillic
Sami	Cyrillic, Latin
Selkup	Latin, Cyrillic
Shor	Cyrillic, Latin, Cyrillic
Tabasaran	Latin, Cyrillic
Tajik	Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Tat	Cyrillic
Tatar	Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic, → Latin
Turkmen	Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic, → Latin
Tuva	Mongolian, Latin, Cyrillic
Udekhe	Latin, Cyrillic
Uighur	Uighur, Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Uzbek	Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic, → Latin
Yakut	Cyrillic, Latin, Cyrillic

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Cherkessian, Crimean Tatar, Kumyk, Nivkh are not yet presented in the list. Azerbaijani and Azeri are the same language.What is 'Netets'?

One note about [3] abbreviation. Kazakh, Kirghiz, Uighur in China, Iran is written in Arabic nowadays.

 

 

Best regards,

 

Kairat A. Rakhim

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