Re: Sample of german -burg abbreviature

From: Gerd Schumacher (Gerd-Schumacher@gmx.de)
Date: Wed Sep 29 2004 - 13:13:43 CST

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    There is such a breve in the Italic Cyrillic fonts of Linguistsoftware

    http://linguistsoftware.com/tc.htm

    Gerd

    Peter Kirk wrote:

    > On 26/09/2004 11:16, Jörg Knappen wrote:
    >
    > >...
    > >
    > >Note the fancy >>semi-cyrillic<< shape of the breve between the letters
    > >b and g -- it is quite typical for this cartographic font. I don't know
    > >what they do with a true breve (like in Romanian) since this atlas
    > >transkribes all names into german.
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > This "semi-cyrillic" breve looks nothing like any of the real Cyrillic
    > breves I have seen. For a start I have never seen any unsymmetrical
    > ones. Is this unsymmetrical shape an regular part of this abbreviation?
    > In that case this might be a distinct character from a breve.



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