----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I forwarded the question to a friend, this is his answer: >Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 03:25:00 -0800 >X-Sender: [log in to unmask] >To: Peter van der Krogt <[log in to unmask]> >From: Vladimir Shkurkin <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: "cyrillic" languages > >At 09:09 AM 97/02/07 +0100, you wrote: >>This was on the Maps-L discussion list. Maybe you can help? >> >>Peter > >Hello Peter, > >I am assuming this has to do with modern maps. >I cannot give an answer for post-soviet era maps generated >in the native languages of the Asiatic republics (Tajikistan, >Uzbekistan, etc) which have adapted Cyrillic letters for >their written languages, nor can I give a simple answer for >Belarus (I have seen both Ukrainian and Russian used in Belarus). >Like in Ukraine, Belarus used Russian furing the Soviet era. > >For Ukrainian/Russian there are a couple of very simple tests, depending upon >the age of the map. If the map was generated after 1918, there >are no Latin letters "i" in the Russian language; the letter for >that sound looks like a mirror image of "N". > >The Ukrainians retained the Latin letter "i", and a dead giveaway >is the presence of the Latin "i" except that it has two dots above >it. Russian does not have a double-dotted "i". > >Look for how Kiev is spelled. If it has an "i" as the second letter, >that's Ukrainian. Odessa has one "c" in Ukrainian, two in Russian. > >Most of the maps of Ukraine published during the Soviet era >are in Russian. Russian was taught as the primary language >during the Soviet era, and even Kuchma, the president of Ukraine >had to take a crash course in Ukrainian to improve it after he >was elected. There is currently a big push to have everything >official in Ukrainian. > >Hope this helps, > > >Vlad Shkurkin >6025 Rose Arbor >San Pablo CA 94806-4147 >[log in to unmask] >1(510)232-7742 Phone >1(510)236-7050 24 hr fax >------------------------------- ______________________________________________________ Visit the MapHist WWW page <http://kartoserver.frw.ruu.nl/HTML/STAFF/krogt/maphist.htm> YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY Dr Peter van der Krogt Map Historian, Explokart Research Program Faculty of Geographical Sciences, University of Utrecht P.O. Box 80.115 3508 TC UTRECHT, The Netherlands <http://kartoserver.frw.ruu.nl/HTML/STAFF/krogt/krogt.htm> e-mail: [log in to unmask] YYYYYYYYYYYYYYY PER ANGUSTA AD AUGUSTA YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY