Re: Two questions about Esperanto

Ray Brown wrote:

> But syllabic |r| is not a consonant. If a language uses the circumflex in
> something like its original use, i.e. to denote high pitch falling to low
> pitch on the same vowel, and it has /r/ as syllable nucleus, then of
> course we'd expect the circumflex to fall on |r| sometimes. But I was
> talking about true consonants. AFAIK Esperanto is the only language that
> pits circumflexes on true consonants.
Following the information provided by G. Garella at
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/piedmontese.htm, some local variations of
piedmontese use r̂ (r with circumflex) for X-SAMPA [r] (IPA turned r) and ĝ
(g with circumflex) for [Z].
Are they true consonants?     ;-)

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