Ideology and alphabets in the former USSR

Language Problems and Language Planning

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 99-125

  Sebba, Mark ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alphabet reform; Cyrillic; Language policy; Orthography; Russian; Soviet Union; Tatarstan; Turkic

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249151844     PISSN: 02722690     EISSN: 15699889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/lplp.30.2.02seb     Document Type: Article

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