Re: Latin vowels?

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Sep 09 2002 - 07:04:59 EDT


At 00:32 -0400 2002-09-09, John Cowan wrote:
>Mark Davis scripsit:
>
>> If someone familiar with any of the weirder creatures in the Unicode
>> Latin Zoo could quickly scan the list over to see if there are any
>> errors, I'd appreciate it.
>
>The following are not vowels.
>The so-called OI is really a velar fricative; the OU-ligature is
>historically so, but functions as [w] in the languages where it is used.
>
>U+01A2 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OI
>U+01A3 # LATIN SMALL LETTER OI

This is not a vowel. It is a GHA, and its name is wrong. What are you
doing Mark basing work like this on the names..... ;-)

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