Re: Is Microsoft conquering the world?! (Re: Orthographies with lotsa diacritics)

Danny Wier wrote:

> But other languages -- particularly Athabaskan and Salishan, which have
> unusually large consonant inventories -- do some weird things.  I saw K's
> and G's with slashes like Danish Ø, underlined letters, umlauts on
> has been done to improve and conventionalize Latinate Native American
> scripts?  (And for one thing, I can't get passed the use of the letter
Just back from Alaska so I may have missed other responses to this.  But
many of the modern conventions are being done in cooperation with native
peoples, including those (to my eyes) awful underlined letters found
in Alaskan lgs.  I doubt that very many tribes would stand for
someone coming in and imposing an orthography on them anymore.  Where
something less than perfect is in place, tradition and economics play
a role.  Many times they used to want something that could be done
on any standard typewriter and if there are documents already in
archives, you want to be able to read them.
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Brad Coon
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