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Re: Alphabet

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Friday, November 2, 2001, 9:51
Nik Taylor wrote:
>John Laury wrote: > > I've realized > > that (at least to my own knowledge) no writing systems > > in existence actually do that. > >Japanese does! Well, not the nasal part, but Japanese kana has a >diacritic that indicates voicing. Thus, "ka" plus that diacritic makes >"ga". The "h" series becomes "b" with the voicing mark, but that's >because in Old Japanese, what is now "h" was /p/. They've since >invented another diacritic, traditionally called the "half-voiced mark" >to show "p" from "h".
From what did these new "p"s arose, or are they just found in loans? Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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