On 03/31/2002 12:48:31 AM "Doug Ewell" wrote:
>I think it's safe to assume that all alphabetic, certainly all Latin,
>characters that *could* have both a capital and a small form *need* to
>have both, because of the possible use in titles. Your research into
>Komi Cyrillic and Lakota long-N proved that.
>
>The obvious exception would be IPA characters -- but even then, as soon
>as an IPA letter migrates to an accepted orthography in, say, Africa, it
>needs an uppercase form.
I understand that Dogrib (IIRC) uses capital/small distinctin for the
glottal stop!
- Peter
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