Hello,
Yitzik Penzev wrote:
> > Save that to the best of my knowledge it wasn't Polivanov
> who invented
> > it.
>
> Maybe I confused it with "cyrillization" of Japanese?...
Possibly so.
> > 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 :-))
The point!
> Moreover, isn't it pronounced smth. like [xw@I]?
I was taught either that or [x(_w)QI]. Czhang?
Pavel
--
Pavel Iosad pavel_iosad@mail.ru
'I am a philologist, and thus a misunderstood man'
--JRR Tolkien, _The Notion Club Papers_