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Re: Yogh (was Re: y sound)

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Friday, April 18, 2003, 7:02
Tristan wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 09:34, Tim May wrote: > > >>In X-SAMPA, "zh" is [Z]. In the actual IPA its a yogh. > > > 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?

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Tristan <kesuari@...>