Re: [Q] is a vowel?! (...)
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 23, 2004, 18:34 |
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At 18:51 23.2.2004, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>Ebisédian has 9 vowels, which puts it in an even worse strait when it
>comes to Roman transcription schemes. I settled for u,w,y,o,3,i,ø,a,e.
>(The frankly dissatisfyingly ugly _3_ is meant to be a mirror-image e, but
>no such glyph exists in current email charsets. Where ø is not available,
>I have no recourse but to use the even uglier _0_.) The vowel values are
>[u], [8], [y], [o], [@\], [i], [A], [a], [&].
Why not use æ for [@\]? It ain't any stranger than ø = [A]!
/BP 8^)
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