For web page makers

Shannon West shanwest at uvic.ca
Mon Jun 19 00:21:13 UTC 2000


At 09:59 AM 19/06/00 +1000, you wrote:


> > I made c, j, s, and z with haceks.  What else would you like to see?  It's
> > basically my project, so I can add some if you think you'd use it.  And
> > what are ogoneks?
>
>Ogonek is what I think John calls the little subscript hook that goes in the
>opposite direction to a cedilla.  They're used for the nasal vowels of Polish
>(and by Americanists for nasal V's also).  Ogonek may be Polish.  It always
>seemed strange to me since in Slavic it should mean "little fire" and in
>Russian
>it's always been the name of a variety/humor/satire magazine.

Aha!  That's what that thing is called!  Hmm, so each vowel would need one
of those?  Or just the basic a e i o u?


>Those are all the hacek-ed charx I need, although the Coloradans use
>h-hacek for
>[x] and, I think, g-hacek for [gamma] and maybe n-hacek for the velar nasal.

Those I could definitely add if people want them.  I don't want to do a lot
of work if no one is interested, but I'd be happy to do it if people will
use it.

Shannon



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