From: Erkki Kolehmainen (erkki.kolehmainen@kotus.fi)
Date: Tue Mar 29 2005 - 02:46:27 CST
Re attached:
The full alphabet of the Finnish Romany includes the following letters:
a, b, d, e, f, g, h, h-caron, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, s-caron, t,
u, v, y, z-caron, ä, ö.
S-caron normally appears after t and z-caron only after d. The written
usage of an independent s-caron is sporadic only.
According to a Romany expert at the Research Institute for the Languages
of Finland, h-caron is pronounced as a voiceless velar spirant,
represented by x in many other Romany languages. It was developed for
the Finnish Romany quite some time ago in order to ease the recognition
of the character-sound relationship, due to the extensive assimilation.
Regards,
Erkki I. Kolehmainen
Liaison to Unicode from RILF
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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:16:20 +0100 (CET)
From: Jörg Knappen <knappen@uni-mainz.de>
To: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Finnish Romany
The note on U+021F (LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH HACHEK) says
"Finnish Romany".
I'd like to know the full alphabet of finnish romany. For curiosity, I am
also interested in the pronounciation of this really unusual character.
--J"org Knappen
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