Re: +AFs-CONLANG+AF0- Vowel romanization

Quoting John Cowan <cowan@...>:



> And yet the Saami use eng in upper and lower case for the only orthography
> their languages have ever had.
Sure about that? Looking up Sámi in my online encyclopaedia, it mentions at
least three different orthographies - one based on Swedish spelling
conventions, using plenty of digraphs like 'tj', one more phonetic (from
Norway) using c-hacek for the same sound*, and a Cyrillic one. I'd be very
surprised if the first one uses eng.

Since Swedish-like writing have been used for varieties that are mutually
unintelligible, likely one should really consider it multiple related
orthographies.

* Infuriatingly, it does not tell which this sound is. My best guess would be
[C] or [tS].

                                                   Andreas

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