... Actually, what you mean is not a circumflex but a tilde. Do you have any idea where it comes from? The only other language that has the character is...
Yes, I have. (but what is a circumflex then?) The author of the letter was the Estonian grammarian Otto Wilhelm Masing. He published his idea of the new letter...
Ops! Sorry, my mistake! I have to ask my Estonian friends, if ö is just õ written with the old orthography, as it may be used in some names, or if it is...
Parhain terveisin Santeri ... Sorry, I meant to say õ is the back counterpart of e of course!!! No wonder if you're confused! Now I got the answer to my...
Santeri eskrë » (re Estonian) ... Still am :) ... If it does, it's as rare as e-acute in English, from what I can tell. Can't find one. James -- -- -- -- --...
... The phoneme in question is [7], by Santeri's description, the back close-mid unrounded vowel. I think this is accurate from my browsings on the web, but...
Back middle unrounded, yes. The same vowel occurs in Estonian- Livonian-Vote language area, in the Permian languages an Mari. AFAIK it is present also in...
Sorry to be OT again, but I thought this might be of interest. A friend of mine is reading an old book about Greenland, which claims that ... Amusing, if true....
... Very interesting! Those spambots get cleverer and cleverer... this one, at least, has been bugging our groups for quite a while now with its utterly...
I know this would create extra work for the listowner, but... One of the yahoo groups I'm on is set up so that new members' postings are moderated until they...
... Oh, for once I had to use the Strange Powers, vested in me as the Lord of Instrumentality of this group... Jan ===== "If you think you are too small to...
... Actually, as long as the amount of spam remains limited to less than one a month, I think such measures are not needed (yet). But if it gets worse, I'll...
Jan eskrë » ... True. The poor romlist gets rather more (mind you, it was a bit of a spam bait to call a list 'romancesomething' :) Jamets -- -- -- -- -- --...
... Romanceconlang. The Romance equivalent of Celticonlang, Slaviconlang, etc., and ourselves. It was because of all the spammers, and the fact that the list...
Wassail! I have put together some notes on Proto-Germanic grammar which can be found on my website: http://www.derwydd.com/Germanic under the Proto-Germanic...
I haven't seen this discussed here or on our sister lists, so... For some aeons I have wanted a keyboard-layout designer so I could create a keyboard layout...
Alright, I am through with spammers, and I believe so are most of you. The last message has been deleted and the member unsubscribed. I have always wanted to...
If an Englishman wanted to learn a modern "heritage language," what language would that be? Excuse me for being vague, but I am interested in England as my mom...
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