Re: Con-Alphabets & Real Languages

On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, 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/).

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