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Re: CHAT: An introduction

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, August 7, 2004, 11:25
Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> Steg Belsky wrote: > > I use cedillas to mark fricative allophones of /bgdkpt/ in many of my > > Hebrew transliteration schemes, including for my permanently in-limbo > > Judean Romanceconlang, Judajca. (which needs a cedilla under the D). > > Why not use underdot (or overdot in the case of |g|), since > Unicode is more fully equipped there. You can of course always use > the combining comma, which IMHO is way cooler than the true cedilla. > (Ever since i learned about |ç| being a modified |z| I cannot see it > as a |c| with a hook...
I thought that c-cedilla had originated as a c-z ligature? Whence spellings like 'Czech'? Andreas