Re: Cyrillic Rokbeigalmki Transliterations
From: | Anton Sherwood <bronto@...> |
Date: | Friday, November 30, 2001, 7:38 |
> Frank George Valoczy writes:
> > For /H/ why not consider Unicode 04A8 and 04A9 "Abkhasian Ha"?
Steg Belsky wrote:
> Is the Abkhasian Ha an actual /H/ sound? That would be cool.
According to my other source* it's `turned h', i.e. front rounded
semivowel (transliterated `o with subdot'). Is that /H/?
*"Adaptations of the Cyrillic Alphabet: Non-Slavic languages" by Bernard
Comrie in Daniels & Bright ed. "The World's Writing Systems", Oxford
1996. (A gift from my polyglot father, five or six years ago. Six? I
hear you ask. He bought it before it was published!)
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