Ar 12:15 -0700 1999-07-02, scríobh Scott Horne:
>> > 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_.
This is true, true, true. (Remember YOGH and EZH? History often counts.)
Maybe Scott can make a web page with a range of Zhuang samples.
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