LL-L "Orthography" 2008.12.22 (05) [E]

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From: Mari Sarv <mari at haldjas.folklore.ee>
Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2008.12.19 (04) [E]

Just for to be correct,

in Estonian orthography neither the palatalization nor the differentiation
between long and overlong syllables are in most cases (except of, for
example, k, p, t on the border of syllables in case of quantity
differentiation) not represented in the regular orthography, both are
phonologically relevant features. Quite regularly Genitive and
Partitive/accusative of a nomen differ only in quantity
(long/overlong-opposition).  (Native) reader in first instance has to
understand the text, then only he/she knows, how to pronounce the word-forms
in ambivalent (homographic) cases.

Mari Sarv

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

No such additional information is necessary in languages in which the
regular orthography does all that is required to know the pronunciation,
unless there are exceptions in foreign names. This is the case for instance
in Czech, Estonian, Finnish, Karelian, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak.

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