bI

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Lojbab wrote:

>  There is a Cyrillic letter that looks like a backwards
>N, and another that looks like the two lower-case letters "bi" written
>close together.

To which I responded:

>  The former is a clear Lojban "i" but the latter is only found in Russian,

Ivan added:

>as well as Byelorussian, Polish, Upper and Lower Sorbian (though I'm
>not totally sure about these) and Ukrainian (actually what it has is
>not exactly the same thing, but is very similar),

I was excluding languages that did not use the Cyrillic alphabet, so Polish
would not qualify. (Neither would either form of Sorbian, but my knowledge
of these languages is next to nil.) So Byelorussian and perhaps Ukrainian
are really the only ones that ought to have been added.


                                                      Bruce