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The Case for a Pan-Caucasian Alphabet

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  • The Case for a Pan-Caucasian Alphabet

    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

      Originally posted by bell-the-cat View Post
      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.
      Last edited by TomServo; 04-05-2013, 02:28 PM.

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