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Re: Yogh (was Re: y sound)

From:Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 22, 2003, 10:43
Danny Wier gir'h:

> I knew the phonology of Chukchi once, but I forgot. Siberian Yupik I know > for a fact has [K], so that makes more sense. I just expected to see > Cyrillic <y> with a hard sign or a stroke through it.
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. And what did you mean by "Cyrillic <y>"
> There are a LOT of Cyrillic letters that haven't been included in Unicode.
Acc. to Esa Anttikoski (unf., this page is avalibale only in Ru., I hope you'll be able to figure out the langs names): Буквы языков народов России, не поддерживаемые стандартом Unicode 3.2 (not supported by Unicode) CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A WITH MACRON Мансийский CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE Селькупский (?) CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE WITH DESCENDER (HOOK?) CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH DESCENDER (HOOK?) Кетский (?), нивхский, эскимосский (?) CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE AND DESCENDER (HOOK?) CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE AND DESCENDER (HOOK?) Нивхский CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IE WITH MACRON CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IE WITH MACRON Мансийский CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IO WITH MACRON CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IO WITH MACRON Мансийский CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EL WITH HOOK CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EL WITH HOOK Ительменский, чукотский (?) CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER O IE LIGATURE CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER O IE LIGATURE Селькупский (?) CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER O WITH MACRON CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER O WITH MACRON Мансийский CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ER WITH CARON CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ER WITH CARON Нивхский CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER HA WITH HOOK CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HA WITH HOOK Ительменский, нивхский, эскимосский (?) CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER HA WITH STROKE CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HA WITH STROKE Нивхский CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YERU WITH MACRON CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YERU WITH MACRON Мансийский CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER E WITH MACRON CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER E WITH MACRON Мансийский CYRILLIC CAPITAL E WITH DOT ABOVE CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER E WITH DOT ABOVE Ненецкий (?) CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YU WITH MACRON CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YU WITH MACRON Мансийский CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YA WITH MACRON CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YA WITH MACRON Мансийский
> They still managed to get Abkhaz in there at least...
Great relief! </sarcastic> Most of those letters are used *only* in Abkhaz. -- Yitzik

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David Starner <dvdeug@...>
Danny Wier <dawier@...>
John Cowan <cowan@...>