LL-L "Orthography" 2002.03.30 (03) [E]

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Resources

Dear Lowlanders,

Below please find an inquiry I received from Michael Everson, who has
been a guiding light and a helping hand in getting necessary exposure
and tools for all sorts of languages to be included in electronic
communication.

What Michael refers to is a crossed lower-case "b" (with a horizontal
stroke through its top) as used ion Old Saxon (the ancestor of Low
Saxon/Low German).  Since this character -- which corresponds to either
/b/ or /v/ in the descendant language varieties -- can occur only
between two vowels, it cannot occur at the beginning of a word, thus is
not normally capitalized.  I do not remember ever seeing a capitalized
form, though I need to ask if any of you ever has seen one.  Even if
not, I would suggest that one be included in fonts for all-caps headings
for today's use, also because one might consider using this letter for a
common Low Saxon orthography in the future (to represent variation of
-b- and -v- in modern dialects).

I will be BCCing Michael on this and any responses.

Thanks.
Reinhard/Ron

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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 14:58:35 +0000
To: sassisch at yahoo.com
From: "Michael Everson" <everson at evertype.com>
Subject: Lowlands-L

In Germanic linguistics the bilabial fricative is often written b
with a stroke through the ascender. If I remember right, Old Saxon
used this letter as well. My question: Do we have a requirement to
have the capital form of this as well as the small form in Unicode? I
suppose we do, at least for titling. But if anyone out there has
actually seen one in an edition of some kind, I'd be very interested
to hear about it.... Would you know?
--
Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com

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