Re: Consonant allophones in Minza

Philip Newton skrev:
 > On 10/5/07, Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:
 >> I may end up using ø for /@/ (as in the second of the
 >> two relays where I used Minza), which at least has a
 >> precomposed character with acute accent ǿ. Hmm, it seems
 >> that ǽ is also supported in the common Windows fonts; I
 >> wonder which language uses ǿ and ǽ?
 >
 > My guess is Danish and/or Norwegian, in specialist
 > contexts, presumably for marking stress.

I guess they could be used for that, but primarily ǿ is
used by some Norwegians for Old Norse œ; sensible from a
purely ON viewpoint but insensible from an Icelandic
viewpoint. There is absolutely no reason not to pronounce ON
like modern Icelandic, except when discussing its phonetics.
As for ǽ it is sometimes used for ǣ in Old English.


 > (Sort of like the double grave, which comes from IIRC
 > Croatian linguistic tradition.)
 >
 > Cheers,

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