Re: Con-Alphabets & Real Languages

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Anton Sherwood <bronto@P...> 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>.

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Wait a moment... how strange, as far as I know, the only way to
represent the /v/ sounds is the character U with a voicing mark,
followed by a small a, i, u, e or o.

Are you sure it's written with a WA then a subscript i? Because WA
and U look very alike...

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