LL-L: "Orthography" [E] LOWLANDS-L, 05.OCT.1999 (02)

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From: jchilders at mindex.com
Subject: letters

Hi all.

I had found a site called "Repertoires of characters used to write the
indigenous languages of Europe". (http://www.indigo.ie/egt/alphabets/ ).
When I looked at the English site, I found a couple letters that I had not
encountered before.  Besides "ash" (Æ), "thorn", "eth", and ‘ (is there a
name for this letter?), I saw two others: "yogh" (sort of a 3 with a front
tail), and a letter that looks like a modified "eth".  Does anyone know how
these letters were used, and why and when they left the English languages?
Are there any other characters that are used in other languages using the
Latin alphabet?

        -Jason

Jason Childers
Rochester, New York
jchilders at mindex.com

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