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Re:China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon by vostok on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @11:21AM (#13167927)
Cyrillic is not an abjad as far as I know. I'm a native of a country that uses Cyrillic, but it's possible that I misunderstood the meaning of "abjad".
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Re:China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon by pouetpouet on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @01:01PM (#13168906)
An abjad is an alphabet of consonants eg Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac. Cyrillic alphabets have vowels.
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Re:China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon by PeCaN on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @11:52AM (#13168236)
No, you're quite right. Cyrillic writes vowels, which is the distinguishing factor between alphabet and abjad.
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