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

From:Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...>
Date:Thursday, May 30, 2002, 16:00
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_