Re: Weird stuff

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From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: Weird stuff


> >Well, I noted the A WITH HALF RING, which is unique to (some of)
> >the Scandinavian languages.  "Argle-bargle" = unintelligible text.
> >Of course I was not serious.
>
> "A with half ring"? You mean an {å} (an {a} with a small, but full, circle
> above)? Well yes that's AFAIK unique to the Scandinavian langs (tho' it
> wouldn't surprise me if it's used somewhere else too - Czech has "u" with
a
> diacritic that looks the same).
>
> There's no a-breve or other sign with a half-ring in the standard Swedish
> orthopgraphy (the text was in Swedish), but in some weirdo fonts for use
in
> stylish headlines etc the diacritic in {å} can look like an up-side-down
> breve.
The "inverted breve" is also used to mark the long vowel-rising tone in
Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Slovenian. (Accent marks are not used in
normal writing, but are used in teaching.)

The long vowel-falling tone is marked with a double grave accent. Short
vowels mark tone by the acute and grave accents for rising and falling tone,
respectively.

These accents are used for both Latin or Cyrillic alphabets.

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