Danny Wier gir'hti:
> From: "Isaac Penzev" <isaacp@...>
>
> > The same source says it was a common practice to use KA, EL and EN +
> > apostrophe instead of proper characters "WITH HOOK" in print, e.g. in
> > newspapers till 1990s.
>
> Ugh, I see an apostrophe and I assume glottalization/ejectiveness by
default
> (the job of palochka). Why not just use hard sign instead?
As we see, character perception psychology differs from one script to
another... An apostrophe was used to modify Cyr letters because it was easy
to type and/or print them!
ja gir'h (you also wrote):
> The macron vowels are obviously the long vowels of Uralic. A-ring I'm not
> sure about,
[skip phonetic values guesses]
> A single dot above E (reversed)? I'm lost on that one.
Danny, we were not talking about their phonetic values (which, btw, in
Cyrillics may differ the same way they do in Latin script)! But I think you
were close enough... I only suspect that Nivkh HA WITH STROKE represents
mere [h].
Yitzik