Re: Czech orthography (was Re: Lack of ambiguity in Czech, was Re: EU allumettes)
| From: | Danny Wier <dawiertx@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 9, 2004, 12:02 |
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From: "Stephen Mulraney" <ataltanie@...>
> Czech uses "e caron" where Polish spelling uses the digraph "ie", and I
> suppose it corresponds to one of the pre-Revolutionary Russian "e"
> letters too ("e" itself, I suppose).
The palatizing Slavic /e/ in Russian was the letter _jat_, which resembled
the soft sign _jer'_ with a crossbar on the top. The Unicode locations for
the capital and small letters are U+0462 and U+0463. The word _n'et_ 'no'
was spelled differently before 1918.
I wish they brought back the four letters that were phased out by Lenin,
personally.
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