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

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 6:08
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 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

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