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Re: What is an alphabet? Re: Optimum number of symbols

From:Y.Penzev <isaac@...>
Date:Thursday, May 30, 2002, 15:51
Hi!
----- Original Message -----
From: Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 3:27 PM


> Looks OK to me. (only the last example spells Pinyin _yu_).
Dash it! I _always_ make typos!
> Save that to the best of my knowledge it wasn't Polivanov who invented > it.
Maybe I confused it with "cyrillization" of Japanese?...
> Oh, and an interesting feaure is that _hui_ is in different names spelt > variously as 'xoj' or 'xuej'! :-))))))))
In dictionaries I saw Cyr-|xuj| for |hui|, but in public it would be quite insulting :-)) Moreover, isn't it pronounced smth. like [xw@I]?
> Pavel
Yitzik ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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