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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!) -- Anton Sherwood -- http://www.ogre.nu/