Re: interesting SIL-document

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Tue Feb 03 2004 - 08:01:28 EST

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    On 03/02/2004 04:36, John Cowan wrote:

    >Peter Kirk scripsit:
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    >>"U+F25A LATIN SMALL LETTER HENG" is probably not intended as an h-ng
    >>combination but as h with a hook, probably a glyph variant of F222.
    >>
    >>
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    >It represents the English phoneme "heng", which is realized as [h]
    >syllable-initially and [U+014B] finally.
    >
    >
    >
    Maybe, but this phoneme is not found in Judeo-Tat, for which this PUA
    character has been specified. This language does not have an eng sound,
    but it does have at least three versions of h (corresponding basically
    to Hebrew he, het and ayin). 

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