From cbmvax!uunet!cuvma.bitnet!LOJBAN Mon Feb 10 17:47:06 1992 Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Mon, 10 Feb 92 17:47 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA25383; Mon, 10 Feb 92 17:00:38 EST Received: from rutgers.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA07384; Mon, 10 Feb 92 16:33:50 -0500 Received: from cbmvax.UUCP by rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) with UUCP id AA29979; Mon, 10 Feb 92 14:57:55 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA08141; Mon, 10 Feb 92 14:42:07 EST Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (via uunet.UU.NET) by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA08378; Mon, 10 Feb 92 12:42:23 -0500 Message-Id: <9202101742.AA08378@relay2.UU.NET> Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with BSMTP id 9579; Mon, 10 Feb 92 12:41:01 EST Received: by CUVMB (Mailer R2.07) id 6473; Mon, 10 Feb 92 12:39:56 EST Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1992 12:37:00 EST Reply-To: "61510::GILSON" Sender: Lojban list From: "61510::GILSON" Subject: bI X-To: lojban To: John Cowan Status: RO Lojbab wrote: > There is a Cyrillic letter that looks like a backwards >N, and another that looks like the two lower-case letters "bi" written >close together. To which I responded: > The former is a clear Lojban "i" but the latter is only found in Russian, Ivan added: >as well as Byelorussian, Polish, Upper and Lower Sorbian (though I'm >not totally sure about these) and Ukrainian (actually what it has is >not exactly the same thing, but is very similar), I was excluding languages that did not use the Cyrillic alphabet, so Polish would not qualify. (Neither would either form of Sorbian, but my knowledge of these languages is next to nil.) So Byelorussian and perhaps Ukrainian are really the only ones that ought to have been added. Bruce