Talk:Abkhaz alphabet

message: Is the letter Й in the Abkhaz alphabet? --84.61.45.143 14:06, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: They are not. Sephia karta 23:32, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

text: Come to think of it, they were once apparently (at least Й was), in a previous incarnation of the alphabet. sephia karta 03:34, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Letters Й and Ў 

message: User Mikkalei, I saw that you reverted some of my changes, and then reintroduced them. I just wanted to note that to my knowledge, this is what the Abkhaz alphabet looks like, based on the "Abkhaz Newspaper Reader" by Hewitt and Khiba. The body text needs improvement though, and ideally the table should be expanded to include past Abkhaz alphabets and different transliteration schemes. Sephia karta 03:41, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nobody denies that these languages aren't related at all. However if it's true (that анбан is alphabet in Abkhaz) I don't think it should be removed. Alæxis¿question? 05:46, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Neither do I. — N-true 15:16, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improvement 

message: The article used to state: The Abkhaz word for alphabet is анбан (anban), which was borrowed from Georgian ანბანი (anbani).
The derivation of the word was disputed on the article page, which is now moved here:
This is not true. The Abkhaz word 'ANBAH' was never borrowod from Georgian.. It is a compound word which are: 
*AN ; mean is: Writing,İnscribed,Having write,On some thing...
*BAN; mean is: See,Seeing,İndicate,İmage,Show,Show having put on some think...
Soo ANBAN; mean is: İnscribe w/writing,Show w/writing,İndicate having put on some think.
For this no need to be a Linguists for god sake.It is sin always giving credit to big thief instead innocent smallCountries.
Zihni Pısyıpa. —Coroboy (talk) 13:36, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Zihni’s etymology is false. Anban is borrowed from Georgian. Apswaaa (talk) 14:13, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Derivation of 'анбан' 

message: An anon recently made an edit contradicting what the article earlier said regarding hooks and descenders. What is correct? I note that one of the sources used has the following to say:
:An interesting feature of Abkhaz orthographies is an evolution in orthographic preference from letters with hook and middle hook gradually being given up for letters with descender. This document requests the addition of CYRILLIC LETTER PE WITH DESCENDER, which is used in modern Abkhaz orthography in replacement of the CYRILLIC LETTER PE WITH MIDDLE HOOK which was previously used.
I also note that the name of the interwiki link to the ab.wikipedia reads Аҧсшәа. Njardarlogar (talk) 15:42, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ҕ or Ӷ? 

message: Are you sure about
Дә дә || Дәы || də || 
The 'db'  seems rather odd... Alæxis¿question? 20:22, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Дә дә

message: Help needed here. Alaexis¿question? 07:14, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notification 

message: I added Ҕ and Ҧ next to Ӷ and Ԥ. I also added Ҕь and Ҕә next to Ӷь and Ӷә. Chiagozie Elobuike (talk) 01:37, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added Ҕ and Ҧ next to Ӷ and Ԥ 

message: Were these old letters of the Abkhaz alphabet? Chiagozie Elobuike (talk) 18:58, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not additional letters, just graphic variants of Қ and Ҭ. Қ and Ҭ were the original forms, then in the 1920s people started experimenting with forms that are more visually distinct, like Ӄ and Ꚋ, and now the convention has returned to the more understated Қ and Ҭ forms. — kwami (talk) 21:29, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ӄ and Ꚋ 

message: , I see that you removed the source for the change from hook to descender, what was the problem with it? Alaexis¿question? 20:22, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, that source was fine. Thanks for catching my error; I just restored it. I had removed it because I removed the statement it was attached to as trivia, and didn't realize it supported the earlier material, as well as justifying my removal of some earlier misinformation. — kwami (talk) 20:58, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! Alaexis¿question? 08:09, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source removed