| Show r RUSSIAN LANGUAGE REFORM The use HIP of the KI U Is one olle of the life lIf factors III which make the lire foreigners light tight shy shay of ot this the I language thereby helping to 10 I keep kp up hut that t Q and ud 11 the Weil which has outlasted out outlasted lasted the otI of oC travel and Intercommunication A language which Is II presented lo to the eye e In u IL madly of ot undecipherable characters character does not nol reveal Itself lo to pro provoke voke yoke u I further Of or course the will never abandon their alphabet bt which In 11 the Ihl lapse lap of centuries linn bus become loume distinctively lively nH national and Is almost M I most bound up with their of they are arl beginning to 10 consider how however ever eve t If It It I Is III hot imi ot possible to 10 have too tar much of H a I good thing and stid If an aft al at alphabet I of o letters would not nor be bl the better belr for fur u Ii little pruning Some Home of the distinctive lie Ile II letters strike one MS as t being extreme extremely Iy ly serviceable particularly pt In n a lang lenK language singe like ilk nUI Instance amt anil the La is and soft lof cli ci el There Titers are ure one ole or two IWI others however hOIr which are already nearly obsolete being can fined nned almost wholly holl to 10 church litera llera literature tore ture that might be Ie struck out of ot the lie Ile alphabet and Ind an entirely superfluous e character could rould be lis bl advantage dropped A commission lies has h been sitting to consider this thin question of fr the much too many IRn and anil apparently some seine sires dras drastic tic Ic changes change will wi result from Its II dellb deliberations delb The Til e I alluded to 10 the he thirtieth letter of ot the alphabet Isto la Is lato Ii to lie be I suppressed and 1111 a R still more Im Ira Important r raft Is In iii II the Ih abolition of ot the hard which h always come anise ut III the end of ot a I word ter terminating with lh u n I hard bust consonant sound Tulle This letter Ille Is I surd such a I distinctive feature In III the lie written Hussion Hint It Il I stems seems utmost a I pity to Ili dI It I It ItIs I ItIs Is 1 not nol used In modern Servian Sell I II old and M In anyone accustomed to 10 the Him clan 1111 01 o Bulgarian forma nf tit 1 writing time tho Servian wordy have linc hl Ir u 11 t II I In II London Post |
