Re: Consonant diacritics (was: Optimum number of symbols)

Raymond Brown wrote:
>Yes, but Esperanto is hardly a 'natural language'.  The idea of sticking a
>circumflex over a consonant has always seemed weird to me - but that's
>probably because I'm only too aware of the origin of the symbol.  But what
>Zamenhof was doing, as we know, was simply inverting the kaczek use in
>Czech, and that symbols was invented for conanants and has remained over
>consonants ever since AFAIK.
Well, that should be _hac^ek_, with the "c^" being an ASCII-friendly way of
writing c-hac^ek, shouldn't it?

>Turkish uses the breve above {g} to denote [G] or, before front vowels [j].
Actually, nowadays the g-breve is normally silent, eg _mog^ul_ is pronounced
[mo:ul], at least according to the Turks I've met.

                                                 Andreas

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