Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Mon, 10 Feb 92 16:25 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA18621; Mon, 10 Feb 92 12:44:46 EST Received: from cunixf.cc.columbia.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AB07392; Mon, 10 Feb 92 12:06:11 -0500 Received: from cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu by cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (5.59/FCB) id AA29281; Mon, 10 Feb 92 12:06:11 EST Message-Id: <9202101706.AA29281@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with BSMTP id 9372; Mon, 10 Feb 92 12:04:50 EST Received: by CUVMB (Mailer R2.07) id 5850; Mon, 10 Feb 92 12:04:40 EST Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1992 15:07:51 GMT Reply-To: Ivan A Derzhanski Sender: Lojban list From: Ivan A Derzhanski Subject: Slavic vowels To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann In-Reply-To: "61510::GILSON"'s message of Mon, 10 Feb 1992 08:33:00 EST <9603.9202101417@cogsci.ed.ac.uk Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Mon Feb 10 16:25:20 1992 X-From-Space-Address: cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN > Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1992 08:33:00 EST > From: "61510::GILSON" > > > 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, 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), > and not present in Ivan's native Bulgarian, if I recall. Your recollection is correct. But I have a next_to_native Russian. Ivan