Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Vadim Cherny <vadimcherny AT gmail.com>]

Kazakh, for example. During the Soviet era, Kazakhs routinely used  
Russian month names. I heard something similar about Mongols using  
Chinese month names for a while, but cannot vouch for that.

Vadim Cherny



On Jan 19, 2010, at 8:20 PM, b-hebrew-request AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> So my objection continues: while there are examples of replacement  
> month
> names to go along with a replacement calendar, or shifting old names  
> over to
> a replacement calendar, other than royal decree (which was only of  
> limited
> effect while apparently marking also a calendar substitution) are  
> there any
> examples of replacement names to go onto an unchanged calendar  
> within an
> unchanged language? I don’t know of any.
>
> Karl W. Randolph.