Re: CHAT: An introduction

On Aug 6, 2004, at 8:33 AM, John Cowan wrote:
> Philip Newton scripsit:
>> So what I usually see is that s-cedilla is shaped like s-cedilla
>> (perhaps because Turkey is a bigger market than Romania) but that
>> t-cedilla is shaped like t-comma (because there is no European
>> language that uses t-cedilla with a cedilla shape underneath in the
>> preferred glyph).
>
> Indeed, t-cedilla is not used, as far as the Unicode folks know, by
> any language anywhere.  Now that proper Romanian s-comma and t-comma
> characters are encoded in both Unicode and ISO 8859-16, t-cedilla has
> become a ghost character.  (Feel free to use it, conlangers!)
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).


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