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

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 07:26:08 +0000, Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:

>On Friday, January 21, 2005, at 12:32 , Henrik Theiling wrote:
>
>> More problems: vowels & tones: since the language has tones, which I
>> *must* (:-)) represent with diacritics in order to avoid symbols (and
>> I don't like letters for tones either), I have problems due to the
>> existence of a schwa: there is a nice unicode letter for it, but my
>> browser fails to compose schwas with acute or grave accent.  So I
>> used |e|.  However, uvulars and pharyngeals shift the articulation
>> of /i/ to [e], and I want to represent this orthographically, too.
>> *Sigh*
>
>The Welsh have been using |y| for ages to represent /@/.
>But I notice that while there are characters in Unicode for y-acute,
>y-circumflex and y-diaeresis, there does not seem to be one for y-grave -
>strange.
Yes, there is such a letter, and a whole bunch of other combinations of "y
with" ..., have a look at the following (a useful page, I think):

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm?q=y+with

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.

kry@s:
j. 'mach' wust

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