Re: Pirdänë: Demonstratives and articles:

daniel andreasson wrote:


> PS. Just one thing. Your mails get messed up with some
> mysterious html-like codes. Is it fixable?
Those represent Windows-specific characters that aren't usable
directly in Latin-1 email, so something is translating them to
SGML/HTML/XML character references.

“ and &#8221 represent left and right quotation
marks, and š is s-caron (s-hacek).

Latin-1 version, using s^ for the s-caron:

 > a) The /a~/ is absorbed by front vowels:
 > sã- + öm "river"
 > söm "the river"
 > sã- + äs^ "deer"
 > säs^; "the deer"
 > b) The following consonants "mutate"
 > dh > n      v > m      t > d
 > d > n        f > v     k > g
 > g > ng      gy > ñ     h > m
 > c) back vowels are absorbed and the mutation occurs inside the word
 > sã- + adhuk "corpse"
 > sãnuk "the corpse"
 > sã- + aut "letter"; > sãud "the letter"

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