> On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 09:34, Tim May wrote:
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>>In X-SAMPA, "zh" is [Z]. In the actual IPA its a yogh.
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> Actually, it's an ezh. A yogh is another of those fun characters used in
> English past to represent a /j/ or /G/ sound. Michael Everson wrote a
> discussion about them at
> <
http://www.evertype.com/standards/wynnyogh/index.html> and
> <
http://www.evertype.com/standards/wynnyogh/ezhyogh.html> (also has a
> bit about the history of the IPA). (His site is a very nice resource for
> scripts or unicode.)
>
> Tristan (lover of dead characters. Hwair is another good one, though
> it's only used for transliterations of Gothic. I may have to fix
> that...)
Agreed. Hwair is very pretty. The capital looks vaguely Cyrillic,
actually. What sound does it represent in Gothic?