Re: Con-Alphabets & Real Languages

From: "Tristan Alexander McLeay"

> Anton Sherwood wrote:
> > laokou wrote:
> > > . . . Japanese (also a loanword fiend) has adopted non-standard
> > > Japanese usages of katakana to accomodate the non-native sounds
> > > of "f" and "v" . . . "bu" plus subscript "i" gets you a "v".
> >
> > I haven't seen that one.  I have a Japanese disc of Vivaldi on which
> > /vi/ is written <WA_i> (with a voicing-mark) -- not <BU_i>.
> I've seen <U_i> with the voicing diacritic on the U before for /vi/ (and
> without the voicing for /wi/).
Yeah, that's the ticket! (<WA_i> doesn't make sense) Still, it's pronounced
"bwi", and you don't normally put the voicing mark on a vowel, so my
original point still stands, my mistaken memory notwithstanding.

Kou