Factors Influencing the Success and Failure of Writing Reforms

The Russian spelling reform of 1917-1918 was very successful – so successful that many young Russians, when confronted with a pre-1917 Russian text, do not know how to read 〈ѣ〉, 〈ѳ〉 or 〈ея〉. However, many reforms of writing systems have not met with success. Among them are the 1930 attempt to conve...

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Main Author: Daniel Bunčić
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2017-11-01
Series:Studi Slavistici
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Online Access:https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/ss/article/view/2397