Re: Icelandic language (was Re: World Pidgin Suffices)
| From: | Oskar Gudlaugsson <hr_oskar@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 20, 2000, 18:59 |
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>From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
>Subject: Re: Icelandic language (was Re: World Pidgin Suffices)
>Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 19:41:19 -0400
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>Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
> > accented vowels = doubled vowels, e.g.
> > á = aa
> > ó = oo
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>You could also use a', o', etc., and dh for edh.
a' and o' looks fine.
However...
I refuse to go out of my way to write edh; the thing is, [D] is not a
phoneme in Icelandic, but merely an allophone of /d/. There is no more
reason to have a separate character for this sound than there is in Spanish
(which has a similar pattern in the /d/ phoneme). Or should Spanish be
written like this?:
"Eres de Maðrið, ?verðað?"
Oskar
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