Glagolitic and Cyrillic [was: Re: VMs: Blanks]

[Milo Velimirovic <milov@xxxxxxxxx>]

Regards glagolitic:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/glagolitic.htm

shows 41 or 42 if you count the two forms of jery as different letters.

IIRC Russian used its own version of the Cyrillic alphabet, Glagolitic 
being used for Old Church Slavonic. Russian Cyrillic has had as many as 
43 letters, reduced to 34 letters after the reforms of Peter the Great 
at the beginning of the 18th century and  33 letters since the 1918 
spelling reform.

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/cyrillic.htm

Milo
On Mar 4, 2004, at 4:04 PM, John Grove wrote:

> 	I think you could count between 32 and 37 characters in Glagolitic.
>
>
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> Subject: Re: VMs: Blanks
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> At 00:28 03/03/2004 -0600, knoxmix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hello Maurizio,
> >
> > On 03 Mar 2004 00:48:43 +0100
> > Maurizio M. Gavioli wrote:
> >
> >     I am afraid I am reaching the phase of the "Let's leave this pile 
> > of
> >     nonsense rot in its spot and forget it".
> >
> > That would be a loss to the list.
>
> Don't worry! As somebody else already said, once the Vms. grabs you, 
> it is
> difficult to escape...
>
> > Did Russia have a 32 character alphabet in the 15th century?
>
> Well, I do not have my references at hand, but Glagolitic (spelling?)
> definitely had more characters than Latin; I don't remember how many
> exactly, but perhaps not much less than 35...
>
> Cheers,
>          Maurizio
>
>
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