Re: Ku, we, tone4, and che

From: Scott Horne (shorne@metaphasetech.com)
Date: Fri Jul 02 1999 - 15:17:08 EDT


> > And why we need Latin tone-letters 3 and 4 (upper- and lower-case) for
> > Zhuang4 rather than the Cyrillic letters that happen to look similar.

Not even very similar, I should point out. And they're not related
at all. Zhuang4 _3_ and _4_ are derived from numerals, not from
Cyrillic _ze_ and _che_.

> And pray tell, is your proposed LATIN SMALL LETTER TONE 4 for Zhuang to
> be considered the same or different than the Cyrillic che used in the
> otherwise Latin (Swadesh) orthography for Nootka and Kwakiutl? And how
> would I tell?

It wouldn't have to be different. We manage to use the same _á_ in
Spanish, Irish, and pinyin, don't we?

Scott Horne



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