The Case for a Pan-Caucasian Alphabet

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The new Mashtots?

YEREVAN–On Friday March 22, guest lecturer Dr. Vazgen Ghazaryan, Ph.D. in Physics from Yerevan State University, presented his proposal for a Pan-Caucasian Alphabet that maintains the phonetic nuances of Caucasian languages, which have been lost with the usage of oversimplified Cyrillic alphabets.

Read more: http://newsroom.aua.am/2013/04/04/au...sian-alphabet/

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Re: The Case for a Pan-Caucasian Alphabet

However, stacking the proposed alphabet full of Armenian letters is not going to do much towards making the proposal aceptable to non-Armenians. It would have to be something more culturally neutral and inclusive.

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Re: The Case for a Pan-Caucasian Alphabet

However, stacking the proposed alphabet full of Armenian letters is not going to do much towards making the proposal aceptable to non-Armenians. It would have to be something more culturally neutral and inclusive.

True. I'm sure Ghazaryan means well but what he's doing isn't much different from korenizatsiya-era Russian and Soviet ethnographers; except Ghazaryan has proposed a modified Armenian alphabet rather than a Cyrillic one. These Caucasian (and other former Soviet) nationalities know Russian and the Cyrillic alphabet, so why would they bother making such a drastic change? The Tajiks refuse to revert to the pre-Soviet Arabic (to Iran's chagrin) and even the vast majority of ROA Armenians prefer to use the Soviet orthography rather than the traditional one that the diaspora uses.