Re: [lojban] [was: fu'ivla] Russian character sets

[Michael van der Gulik <mikevdg@gulik.co.nz>]

ignat 99 wrote:

> coi rodo
>
> Yes certainly. 
> But Old Russian alphabet has 44 letters and new has 33.
> But in the American alphabet only 24 letters. It is still less in
> lojban. It means one Russian letter necessary to transfer by several
> American. But more rational it would be make vice versa.  As the base
> to take the Russian alphabet, but not American alphabet.
>
> But now, for the transfer of one letter in lojban, I must use 4-5 letters?
>  
Hi Ignat.

It is not called the "American alphabet" but the "Latin" or "Roman" 
alphabet, and it has 26 letters (or it did last time I counted :-P). It 
is used by many countries around the world, and there's nothing 
particularly American about it.

If you want to quote Cyrillic letters (characters) in Lojban, refer 
here: 
http://www.lojban.org/en/publications/reference_grammar/chapter17.html#s17. 
To quote one Cyrillic character in Lojban, you will need up to 14 
characters!!

However, it is much simpler to use the Latin character set to write 
lojban in. More lojbanists can read what you write if you do that. You 
seem to be able to write in it okay :-).

Mikevdg.