Re: R: Re: R: orthographical question.

Mangiat sikayal:

> > Hate to be pedantic, but I have to stop this misinformation before it goes
> > any further.  Romanian does *not* use the breve over {i}.  The only letter
> > that takes the breve is {a}, which is used to represent [@], the schwa.
>
> I knew it. But you can't deny that a breve sign would anyway make the
> orthography somehow resemble Rumanian. Is there any other European language
> still using breve signs? I am sure Latvian uses macrons, but lacks breves.
True.  I'm pretty sure that Hungarian uses i-hacek, though, and the only
difference between a breve and an hacek is pointiness.  You're right,
though, the i-breve would look very Romanian.  And the i-breve was used in
Romanian in older (circa 1700) orthographies.  The Romanian sample at
christusrex.org has a passage with breves over every vowel except o!


Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
"It is of the new things that men tire--of fashions and proposals and
improvements and change.  It is the old things that startle and
intoxicate.  It is the old things that are young."
-G.K. Chesterton _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_
Conlanger code: CLI> l%p+++ cS:R:N:H a++ y n18d:6 X+++ A-- E-- L-- N2.5
Idmp k++ ia-- p+ m++ o+++ P d++ b++ Yivríndil

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