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Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by eCa on Thursday April 26, 2018 @01:05AM (#16928941)
> Are you really telling us Slavs[...]

Absolutely not. My argument was that Kazakh is far from unique in having ”extra letters”, which my native language’s alphabet also has.

On a personal level I far prefer latin-alphabet Slavic languages since it makes it easier to approximate an understandable pronunciation.

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Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by fusiongyro on Thursday April 26, 2018 @01:19AM (#16929010)
Is that a feature of the orthography or does that simply tell us something about your personal background?
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Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by FRex on Thursday April 26, 2018 @09:32AM (#16931668)
That was a reply to the person who has said that it's wrong to say Czech has 42 letters because Germans count their letters differently, not to you.

I of course agree with there not being a problem with extra letters because Polish does it without any significant problems as well.

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