From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Sun May 11 2003 - 13:36:39 EDT
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----- Original Message -----
From: Don Osborn
To: a12n-collaboration@bisharat.net
Cc: unicode@unicode.org
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 02:16
Subject: Hooked-y's in Unicode 4.0
Just noted that the beta version of Unicode 4.0 has the same
description for these characters (see
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-4.0/U40-0180.pdf ) as in
version 3.2 :
01B3 - LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH HOOK
01B4 - LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH HOOK
. Bini, Esoko, and other Edo languages in West Africa
It might be opportune to mention under 01B3 that the glyph can also
have the hook to the right (in fact that seems to be preferred at
least in some areas - see discussion at
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=HooktopYVariants
, and under 01B4 that the character is also used in Hausa (Niger) and
Fula.
Curiously, Hartell's (1993) data does not show the hooked y for
Edo/Bini in Nigeria (see
http://www.bisharat.net/A12N/NIGERIA-table.htm or
http://www.rosettaproject.org:8080/live/search/showpages?ethnocode=EDO&doctype=ortho&version=0&scale=six
. I have no info on Esoko. And just for completeness's sake, Nigeria
does not use the hooked-y for Hausa or Fula (unlike other countries of
the region). Can anyone clarify? If it is indeed used for Edo/Bini,
is it possible that the left-hook capital hooked-Y is the preferred
variant for it?
Don Osborn dzo@bisharat.net
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