[Fwd: Re: Hindi characters for transcribing the sound "e"]

From: Patrick Andries (pandries@iti.qc.ca)
Date: Mon Jan 14 2002 - 13:25:13 EST


Aman Chawla a écrit :

> With reference to the FAQ:
> http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/indic.html#13 , I would like to
> know what are the Hindi characters used to transcribe the sound "e"
> (as in English "bet", "bed", "red" etc.) in Unicode.
>
> Thanks
>

English vowels, I'm not too sure about them. Let's see, are you speak of
the sound "e" (the open mid-front unrounded vowel) as in Hindi /m?l/
("dirt" according to my sources) and not /mel/ ("harmony") ?

I believe it is often translitterated "ai" and could be transcribed back
in Hindi with ? or ? (U+0910, U+0948 as a diacritic) although it is
originally a diphtong. The English closed mid-front unrounded vowel /e/
(as in hay or bake) would be transcribe with a U+090E ?.

Patrick Andries
http://hapax.iquebec.com



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