Re: unknown symbols
From: | Steven A. Williams <ignisglaciesque@...> |
Date: | Monday, October 27, 2008, 16:56 |
Sometimes, ring-below means devoicing. Perhaps a voiceless 'a'?
And in the IPA, diaresis below means breathy-voiced. So, ṳ could be a
breathy-voiced 'u'.
Otherwise, I have no idea about the others...
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:22 PM, David McCann <david@...>wrote:
> Looking at the contents of Latin Extended Additional, I realised that
> there were a lot of characters I didn't know. A bit of googling showed
> that no-one else seems to know them either! Can anyone here explain the
> uses of the following?
>
> ḁ (a ring below) ḉ (c cedilla acute) ḡ (g macron) ḣ (h dot above)
> ḧ (h dieresis) ḩ (h cedilla) ḿ (m acute) ṕ (p acute)
> ṥ (s acute & dot above) ṧ (s caron & dot above) ṩ (s dot above & below)
> ṳ (u dieresis below) ṽ (v tilde) ṿ (V dot below) ẙ (y ring over)
>