[...] We've already mentioned Hangul Day, celebrated in Korea. Any other holidays dedicated to particular scripts?
Ross Clark wrote:
April 26, which is the feast day of Stephen of Perm, is celebrated as
Old Permic Alphabet Day.
Not mentioned by Crystal. A passing reference by Geoffrey Sampson, in
a LinguistList review of a book on Uralic languages, led me to it.
It was invented in 1372 by the said Saint, in order to write (Old)
Komi (aka Old Zyrian), a Permic (Uralic) language (making it one of
the earliest scripts used in that family). It is a rather radical
re-shaping
of Cyrillic, with some elements from other sources. Its use continued
for about three centuries, after which it was replaced by more normal
Cyrillic.
All this and more at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Permic_script
We've already mentioned Hangul Day, celebrated in Korea. Any other
holidays dedicated to particular scripts?
What about this one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_Slavonic_Alphabet,_Bulgarian_Enlightenment_and_Culture
Regards, ULF
There was a Serbian restaurant at one time in Auckland (though
Croatians are much more numerous here), and the one time we ate
there, I remember seeing, pinned to the wall, a little poem about
"Наша Кириллица" (Our (dear?) Cyrillic alphabet). Googling that phrase brings up a lot of Russian sites with similar sentiments.
Looking further into it will show that while the above is basically
true, it is a lot more complicated.
(i) They have several different feast days depending on which church
you ask.
(ii) They invented two quite different alphabets -- Glagolitic, which
looks a bit like Elvish; and Cyrillic, which is simpler and more
obviously based on Greek, and has lasted longer.
(iii) And maybe they didn't invent them just like that...but such is
the way of writing systems.
On 04/05/24 20:13, Ross Clark wrote:
There was a Serbian restaurant at one time in Auckland (though
Croatians are much more numerous here), and the one time we ate
there, I remember seeing, pinned to the wall, a little poem about
"Наша Кириллица" (Our (dear?) Cyrillic alphabet). Googling that >> phrase brings up a lot of Russian sites with similar sentiments.
Looking further into it will show that while the above is basically
true, it is a lot more complicated.
(i) They have several different feast days depending on which church
you ask.
(ii) They invented two quite different alphabets -- Glagolitic, which
looks a bit like Elvish; and Cyrillic, which is simpler and more
obviously based on Greek, and has lasted longer.
(iii) And maybe they didn't invent them just like that...but such is
the way of writing systems.
Yike! I see what you mean by Elvish. The users of Glagolitic must have
had low reading speeds.
Now that I've looked it up, I see that I've had a false belief for
years. I had always believed that Cyrillic was invented by the Greek
monk Cyril (and, perhaps, his partner Methodius). Now I see that Cyril introduced Glagolitic, and that others later modified his script to turn
it into Cyrillic.
That's a little surprising. You'd expect a Greek, faced with the problem
of creating an alphabet for the Slavs, to come up with something similar
to the Greek alphabet. (With, of course, additions to deal with the fact
that the Greek alphabet is too small.) Indeed, Cyrillic does show
obvious derivation from Greek, but Glagolitic does not.
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