On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
> Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> > > At 04:48 PM 02-08-02, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> > >
> > > >... and some extreme case
> > > >orthographies are known that employ up to *hepta*graphs!
> > >
> > > Ooo, I want one! Do you have any examples, Ken?
> >
> > If I recall correctly, that one was a technical orthography
> > of Nama -- but I can't track down an online reference at the
> > moment.
>
> If you also consider transliterations, the single Cyrillic letter "щ" is
> transliterated as "schtsch" in German.
>
> But, as "щ" actually represents a sequence of two Russian phonemes ([S] +
> [tS]), and German "schtsch" could be considered a transcription rather that
> a transliteration, the sequence could even be considered as trigraph "sch"
> followed by tetragraph "tsch".
>
> _ Marco
>
>
Wednesday, August 7, 2002
I'm not sure where this discussion is going but isn't there a proposal to
assign a single code to the Arabic invocational phrase which translates
into English as "In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate"? I
will not attempt to count either the number of letters in the Arabic
original or the number of combining characters.
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