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This is a Guide for YUL staff to help identify scripts and which selector they belong to.

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Common languages at YUL

  • Cyrillic alphabet can be used for these languages, plus many others:
    • А Б В Г Д Е Ё Ж Э И Й К Л М Н О П С Т У Ф Х Ц Ч Ш Щ Ъ Ы Ь Ю Я 
    • Russian, Uzbek, Kazakh, Kurdish, Macedonian, Moldovian, Mongolian, Serbian, Chechen, Tajik, Tatar, Ukranian  [Slavic/East Europe]
    • Macedonian [European Humanities]
    • Mongolian [East Asia]
  • Greek alphabet can be used for these languages, plus many others:
    • Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω
    • Greek [European Humanities]
  • Latin/Roman Alphabet can be used for a very large array of languages, including these plus MANY others. Many of these languages add extra diacritics to the Latin alphabet:
    • English, French, Spanish, Catalan, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Finnish, etc. [HCRE, plus all other selectors]
    • Many Native American languages [HCRE]
    • Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, Bambara, etc.  [Africa]
    • Filipino, Tagalog, Indonesian, Malay, Vietnamese, etc. [Southeast Asia]
    • Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit [South Asia, Southeast Asia]
    • Konkani, Brahui, etc. [South Asia]
    • Polish, Latvian, Kurdish, Kazakh, Hungarian, Estonian, Croatian, Chechen, etc. [Slavic/East Europe]
    • Latin [Classics]

Librarian for South Asian Studies

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Rich Richie
Contact:
Sterling Memorial Library, 212

Southeast Asia Reading Room: Sterling Memorial Library, 214



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P.O. Box 208240

130 Wall Street

New Haven, CT 06520
1-203-432-1858
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