Re: Dutch "ij"
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 17, 2002, 1:34 |
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Pablo David Flores wrote:
> Which is
> good, since most often than not they don't mark anything
> VERY important...
What about when only the presence or absence of a diacritic distinguish
two words, like, se/sé?
Japanese ignores the voicing and p-diacritics except when those are all
that distinguish two words (which is fairly often), so that, for
example, you'll have:
Haha: mother
Haba: width, breadth (h+voicing = b)
Baba: Old woman
Papa: Father [western origin] (h+diacritic = p)
Hahakata: maternal (as in "maternal uncle"), on one's mother's side.
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