Re: U+0261 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT G

From: Frédéric Grosshans <frederic.grosshans_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 18:35:41 +0200

Le 28/03/2017 à 18:14, Richard Wordingham a écrit :
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 21:10:58 +0900
> "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst_at_it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:
> (in Re: Standaridized variation sequences for the Desert alphabet?)
>
>> On 2017/03/27 21:59, Michael Everson wrote:
>>> Aa and Ɑɑ are used contrastively for different sounds in some
>>> languages and in the IPA. Ɡɡ is not, to my knowledge, used
>>> contrastively with Gg (except that ɡ can only mean /ɡ/, while
>>> orthographic g can mean /ɡ/, /dʒ/, /x/ etc. But g vs ɡ is
>>> reasonably analogous to 𐐦 and <lig>𐐃𐐆</lig> being used for /juː/.
>> The contrastive use *in some languages or notations* (IPA) is the
>> reason these are separately encoded.
> [...]
> Which writing system contrasts the two?

I had found in 2013 a GꞬ contrast in mathematical notations of an old (1952) physics book (see http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2013-m01/0092.html)

   Frédéric
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