On 2/8/2016 6:39 PM, Charlie Ruland
wrote:
Am 09.02.2016 schrieb Asmus Freytag (t):
On 2/8/2016 5:47 PM, Michael
Everson wrote:
It’s what I was taught as the scientific romanization for Russian and Slavic in general.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
Source?
A./
Look at tables 27.1 (p. 348) and 27.2 (p. 351) of Paul Cubberley’s
The Slavic Alphabets (=Peter T. Daniels and William Bright
(eds.): The Word’s Writing Systems, pp. 346–355).
Obviously the soft sign <ь> is transliterated as a prime
<ʹ>, and the hard sign <ъ> as a double prime
<ʺ>. Also note that <ћ> [gʲ] is Romanized as <ǵ>
which can hardly be considered an apostrophe above <g>.
I looked.
The <ǵ> looks like a g-acute. However, the "ink" for that
acute matches the ink for the prime for <ь>, which is
otherwise at the wrong angle compared to the double prime. (Does not
look like one half of the double prime - the slight difference in
weight would be more typical of single/double symbols).
Without scouring the book I don't know whether there's another place
in it where something's unquestioningly the prime. In that case we
could figure out whether its appearance is simply the way that font
does it. Alternatively, if making double prime look different from
two single primes, perhaps that's common enough across fonts, and
would help to lay any doubts to rest - but so far, what I see is a
spacing acute.
A./
Received on Mon Feb 08 2016 - 23:32:30 CST