Re: New Site
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 8, 2003, 14:17 |
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On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 14:23:45 +0200 Jean-François Colson
<bn130627@...> writes:
> Sorry, YRC: "In Quenya in which a was very frequent, its vowel sign
> was
> often omitted altogether. Thus for calma 'lamp' clm could be
> written. This
> would naturally read as calma, since cl was not in Quenya a possible
> initial
> combination, and m never occured finally. A possible reading was
> calama, but
> no such word existed."
> IIRC in most (all?) Indic scripts there's a diacritic which
> supresses the
> inherent vowel. How do you represent that in Tengwar?
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With a single dot below the letter.
Btw, for those who i discussed Hebrew modes for Tengwar with a while ago,
i made a slight change to mine:
http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~bh11744/stuff/tengwarh.gif
|tzadi| is now written as |ttet|+|s-curl|, i.e. 'emphatic
(=extended-stem) /ts/'. It makes more sense to me since now all the
emphatics have extended stems.
-Stephen (Steg)
"eze-dagwet tzma rezatm ka'tyekt-a."