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developed regional variations to fit the features of national languages. Today, dozens of languages in Europe and Asia are written in Cyrillic.
And now, more than a millennium later, isn’t it time for another revolution?
<b>The task</b>
Don’t get scared at this point! I don’t suggest developing a brand-new alphabet instead of Latin. Indeed, Latin script does not fit European languages very well, unlike most other local alphabets. Some Eastern European languages employ diacritics so extensively, that they look like rather pathetic attempts to adapt Latin script. Nations that don’t use diacritics, are compelled to use digraphs and trigraphs – hardly a better option (e.g. German ‘tsch’). But it’s beyond the scope of this article, and besides, it’s not realistic.
And yet, new revolution is half a millennium overdue. Since
