Special signs

[Michael McCafferty]

This practice is common for other languages that, in publications, 
generally mark long vowels (and consonants!) with a raised dot.

Michael

Quoting John Schwaller <schwallr at potsdam.edu>:

> The convention which we use on this list, and in general in places
> where diactitics don't appear properly, is to place a colon (:) after
> the long vowel:
> to:ca:itl
>
>
> On 7/31/2010 6:16 PM, lahunik.62 at skynet.be wrote:
>>
>> /Special signs./
>>
>> /It is very annoying writing Nahuatl with a modern azerty keyboard./
>>
>> /For example the word tocaitl, has a long --o- and a long --a-./
>>
>> /Therefore a little marking line should be above the two vowels./
>>
>> /Every time one must insert a special sign, working with Words./
>>
>> /In fact this is a very old-fashioned rule if I may say./
>>
>> /In the Dutch language we have a rule to write long vowels twice./
>>
>> /For example: to go = gaan./
>>
>> /Tocaitl should be than writing, toocaaitl, and one should no longer
>> open special signs./
>>
>> /I don't know if there exist special keyboards with those special signs./
>>
>> /Or.../
>>
>> /Cuix o-ni-n-ix-cuep? /
>>
>> /Or... Cuix oo-ni-n-ix-cuep?/
>>
>> /Lahun Ik 62 /
>>
>> /Baert Georges/
>>
>> /Flanders// Fields/
>>
>>
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