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Date:         Mon, 10 Feb 1992 08:33:00 EST
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From: "61510::GILSON" <cbmvax!uunet!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!gilson!61510.decnet>
Subject:      Slavic vowels
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To: John Cowan <cowan@snark.thyrsus.com>
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>  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.

The former is a clear Lojban "i" but the latter is only found in Russian,
and not present in Ivan's native Bulgarian, if I recall.