From: Bertrand Laidain (bertrandlaidain@mac.com)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 02:48:47 EDT
No sorry, you're right about YIVO, I made a confusion with "beys" and
"veys". But the second part of the sentence is still valid...
Bertrand
Le jeudi, 31 jul 2003, à 03:30 Europe/Paris, John Cowan a écrit :
> Bertrand Laidain scripsit:
>
>> Not exactly, in standard YIVO orthography, Yiddish p is pe (without
>> dagesh) and f is pe-rafe. In some yiddish books you will find
>> pe-dagesh
>> for p but on the other hand f will be pe (without rafe).
>
> Well, I was drawing on
> http://www.yivoinstitute.org/yiddish/alefbeys.htm ,
> so if YIVO can't get its own orthography right, I don't know what to
> think.
>
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