Re: +AFs-CONLANG+AF0- Vowel romanization

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> 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.
Michael Everson's submission to CEN/TC304, which is not official but
has had the benefit of a lot of scholarship, shows that Northern Saami
(Norway, Sweden, Finland) and Skolt Saami (Finland, Russia) use eng;
Lule Saami (Sweden, Norway), Inari Saami (Finland), and Southern Saami
(Sweden, Norway) do not; Kildin Saami (Russia) uses Cyrillic eng.
Ethnologue shows a few other Saami languages (they tend to be splitters)
which are moribund to dead, with few or no written forms extant.

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

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