From: Страхиња Радић (vilinkamen@mail.ru)
Date: Tue May 31 2005 - 15:47:00 CDT
Дана 2005.05.31 22:42, Michael Everson је написао:
> >It is used in some Serbo-slavic texts from from the XIX century.
>
> Ah. Can you supply evidence? And does it contrast
> with dotted i? (Irish texts in Gaelic script use
> an i without a dot, but it is not the "Turkic
> dotless i", it's just a glyph variant of i.
I will try to contact some people, and will supply exact pointers in a
few days.
> > 3) Why ``SHTAPIC'' and not ``PALOCHKA'' or ``STICK''? And could
someone
> >explain to me what is the use of this character?
>
> It's used in the Balkans, not in Russia, so a
> Balkan Slavic name was used. It is some sort of
> soft sign if I recall.
Is it really (Old) Slavic? ``Штапић'' is a modern Serbian and Croatian
word (BTW, it should read ``SHTAPITCH'', with ``TSHE'', not ``TSE'' at the
end), but I doubt it is Old Slavic. And again, if ``SHTAPIC'' is a soft sign,
then it is another example of variant font-only forms encoded in Unicode. At
least it reminds me of square Glagolitic soft sign.
Best regards,
Strahinya
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