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Re: Haceks and letters with ascenders

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, March 8, 2003, 12:55
Quoting Dirk Elzinga <Dirk_Elzinga@...>:

> The retroflex series could be represented with the symbols for the > corresponding alveolar consonants following an <r>: > > [t`] -> <rt> > [d`] -> <rd> > [n`] -> <rn> > > etc. > > This is how many of the orthographies are set up for the Australian > languages. But then, not everyone is open-minded enough to follow the > digraph path :-).
Do you by any chance know whether this enlightened spelling convention was copied from the Scandinavian languages, where "rt"=[t`] etc are used due to sound changes merging /r/ with following dentals into retroflexes. Andreas

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Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...>