From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Thu Mar 18 2004 - 18:58:41 EST
On 18/03/2004 10:30, Michael Everson wrote:
> ...
> You mistake orthography and glyph choice with character identity.
> "Dotless i" as a *character* is used only in Turkic languages, has
> nothing to do with Irish, and never has.
>
May I pick a nit here? Dotless i is used in the official orthography of
at least one non-Turkic language, that of Udi, a north-east Caucasian
minority language of Azerbaijan; I think it is also in the Latin script
orthography of Lezgi, the language of a much larger minority group.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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