Re: R: Re: R: orthographical question.

On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, jesse stephen bangs wrote:

> 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!
>
Having Hungarian as my first language I can say that Hungarian does not
use i-hacek. I don't think I've seen that even in ancient texts.

Speaking of breves, can anyone explain how it is used in German over "u"?

-------ferko
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