Re: What is an alphabet? Re: Optimum number of symbols
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 30, 2002, 13:07 |
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Y.Penzev scripsit:
> Cyr-O stands for both [o] and [uo]
And rightly so: all Mandarin /o/ is labialized. The only reason that
bo po mo fo are not written buo puo muo fuo is that they are already
labial consonants, so the w-glide is merged into the consonant.
The only exception to this AFAIK is o1 = "Oh!"
Do you have full details on this system?
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