Re: [NATLANG] Amharic and Irish help

On Dec 2, 2004, at 6:23 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> I also looked at the names of the months in the Ethiopic Calendar
> according to _Calendrical_Calculations_, even though those are
> presumably Ge'ez rather than Amharic.   The names are full of odd
> diacritical marks, reminiscent of Indic transliteration schemes.  At a
> guess, |ś| (s with acute) represents [C], and the underdot represents
> ejectiveness, but then I don't know what it's doing on an |h|.  Both
> |a|
> and |e| appear with macrons; did Ge'ez have phonemic length?  Perhaps
> an |a| with macron is [a], vs unmacronned [6], while macronned |e| is
> [e], vs unmacronned [@]?
> Well, anyway, any assistance/pointers are appreciated.
S-acute is used in Semitic transcription systems to represent /K/ and
sounds derived from it, such as the Hebrew letter |sin|.
H-underdot, similarly, is used for /X\/ (sometimes distinguished from
H-underbreve /x/.

I may have some information about Amharic from my comparative Semitic
linguistics class last year... i'll look around for it.

ObConlang:
in my Semiticonlang, S-acute and Z-acute are used to represent whistled
sibilants.


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