Re: French spelling scheme

En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:

>
> You have got those two the wrong way around, or? At any rate, I'm
> positive
> that the "umlaut" diacritic in German and Swedish descend from earlier
> superscripte "e"s. This is what all books I've read that deals with the
> subject says, it's supported by the alternative spellings {ae}, {oe} and
> {ue} for the sounds usually indicated wiht {ä}, {ö} and {ü}, and lastly
> it's
> strongly suggested by some fraktur fonts I've seen (in actual old books)
> that use a small superscript "e" to indicate the umlaut.
Well, in fact I think I've talked nonsense :) . Indeed, the German "umlaut"
diacritic descends from a superscript "e", while Romance "diaeresis" diacritic
probably comes from imitation of Ancient Greek. I really shouldn't do three
things at the same time...

Christophe.

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