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Re: Of Haa/hhet & other matters (was: mu for [N])

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, January 22, 2005, 14:03
Quoting "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...>:

> Of the many different uses of the letter |y|, I like best that Welsh use, > since the other uses of |y| can be represented with other letters, but > there's no other letter for that one.
Needless to say, I, as a Swede, disagree; |y| is, as even the IPA accepts, to be used for /y/! This moreover is the original use of the letter. For /@/ I like the Albanian |ë| - schwa sounds like the bastard offspring of 'e' and 'ö' to me. Andreas