Re: Con-Alphabets & Real Languages

Anton Sherwood scripsit:

> 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>.
That is also the system used by JIS X 0208 and the Unicode Standard:
katakana VA VE VI VO VU are WA WE WI WO U with full voicing mark.
Hiragana VU is also U with voicing mark, but no precomposed
forms are given for hiragana VA VE VI VO.

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