• Wogi@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Say what you want about the Russian people, it’s government, the culture, even the food.

    The language got absolutely fucked with that alphabet.

    Let’s take an Asian tribal language and have two Greek guys force a Latin alphabet on it.

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      1 day ago

      Slavic languages are related to other European languages closer than Finnish and Hungarian, also the writing system Cyril introduced was Glagolitic, the reason Cyrillic appeared was because students in Bulgaria didn’t want to use the rather complex glagolitic alphabet for everything and already knew the greek alphabet, so they kind of combined them and created Cyrillic

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        24 hours ago

        Also, Cyrillic can represent features like palatalization better than the Latin alphabet does, not saying it’s the best for everything but it does have advantages