RE: Bantu click letters

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Thu Jun 10 2004 - 13:32:50 CDT

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> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
On Behalf
> Of Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin

> Something else: What is the usual spelling for these phonemes in
> today's orthography? Clicks in Xhosa and Zulu are spelt nowadays with
> usual Latin letters (c, q, x etc.).

We're talking about the same group of languages. I believe they use
similar orthographies.

> Also: What about upper case forms?

The uppercase of !xhosa is !Xhosa. Uppercase versions of phonetic
symbols are a concern only if the phonetic symbols gain currency, which
is not the case here.

Peter

Peter Constable
Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
Microsoft Windows Division

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