Re: USAGE: Latin alphabet (Re: Chinese Dialect Question)

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From: "Paul Bennett" <paul-bennett@...>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: USAGE: Latin alphabet (Re: Chinese Dialect Question)


> On 7 Oct 2003 at 23:43, J Y S Czhang wrote:
>
> >     The only other alphabet in the world that has the upside-down 'e' is
the
> > IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet, used by lexicographers and
linguists).
>
> Are you sure? I don't have any research immediately to hand, but that
> statement does not ring true.
>
> For example, Unicode has "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCHWA" as well as
> "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER REVERSED E", and notes that these are not glyph
> variants. The existence of two capital forms implies the existence of
> two lower-case forms in two scripts. Since the IPA is uncial, i.e.
> does not have a case distinction, neither script is the IPA.
>
> Also, I know that Azerbaijani uses the capital turned e that looks
> like a big schwa, or at least it did during the cyrillic period. This
> is a further inference that the "turned capital E" form comes from a
> real language, and not from IPA, since if IPA had a case distinction,
> my gut tells me that it too would use the "big schwa" glyph.
Azerbaijani does, indeed, uses a Schwa-type-symbol.(Azerbaijani for
Azerbaijan is Az@rbaycan [where @ is schwa]).  It has a capital form too.

http://www.google.com/intl/az/

They're all over the place here.