Re: A new phonemic distinction in Gzarondan

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 08:40:46 +0200, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
> For that matter, I believe that eta, the H-shaped glyph, represented
> [h] in some dialects of Ancient Greek -- and I've read that the signs
> for rough breathing (roughly, "(") and smooth breathing (roughly, ")")
> occur from half of the H sign, i.e. something like |-- and --|.
Yeah. The tack forms are what survived into the Slavic script (though not for long)
as U+0485 and U+0486.

For an example of it on a Greek letter, see:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/map_item.pl?data=/gmd3m/g3200m/g3200m/gct00003/or00004i.sid

The page is in Latin, but the third line is in Greek ("r(aywdia e(katostixos", a
hundred-line rhapsody); the epsilon has the ordinary "(" rough breathing, but
the rho has the tack--_after_ itself!

	*Muke!
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