Re: Silent E

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 22:17:47 EDT, Colin Halverson <CHalvrson@...> wrote:

>Do any other languages (I am sure there are at least a few) have a silent
>letter or especially a silent modifying letter (as in English "ate", the e is
> silent and makes the a long)???  Where does this come from??  Do any of ur
>conlangs have this??
Olaetian has a few silent letters, and a special diacritic for marking the
letters as silent. In the old spelling, this mark was rarely used; I used
special ligatures to indicate that a letter was silent. But when I
converted my Olaetian documentation to use the OlaeUni font (which uses the
CSUR encoding for Olaetian), I began to use it more systematically. One
major use of this mark is to distinguish between the two sounds of the
letter çe: /k/ and /s\/; a silent "e" is put after the çe to indicate the
/s\/ pronunciation. You can see the old "çe+e" ligature on my web page
(http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/OlaetyanGrammar.html), which still uses
the old font (see the conjugation of the verb "çi" near the bottom).

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