Re: U+0185 in Zhuang and Azeri (was Re: unicode Digest V4 #3)

From: jameskass@att.net
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 21:15:09 EST

  • Next message: John Cowan: "Bhutanese marks"

    .
    Kenneth Whistler wrote,

    > Note that there are more modern representations of Zhuang that
    > dispense with the special tone letters altogether and
    > substitute out ordinary Latin letters, in a Pinyin-like
    > simplification. See:
    >
    > http://www.liuzhou.co.uk/liuzhou/language.htm
    >
    > with a sign showing the substitution of Latin J, H, Z, X, W(?)
    > for the 5 Zhuang tone letters.

    The chart on this Japanese page about the modern Latin based
    Zhuang writing systems appears to confirm that ASCII letters are
    now used for tone marking, but uses the "q" in place of your
    questioned "W".

    http://www.geocities.co.jp/NatureLand/3973/zhuangyu_ch06.htm

    Best regards,

    James Kass
    .



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Mon Jan 05 2004 - 21:54:05 EST