Hello, Qalamites. I need some help with a small essay I am writing. I am describing the writing systems in current usage in the world. For each writing system,...
... For each ... more of ... would like ... Sorry Marco, no spaghetti, but I have posted 16 words that sound like their English equivalents. At least a few...
Send in your paper proposals before Nov. 19! ... Twenty-seventh Internationalization and Unicode Conference (IUC27) Theme: Unicode, Cultural Diversity and...
... Thank you very much, Suzanne. ... OK, time for laughing: - aarańsh: "orange"? (The color or the fruit?) - kaapi: could it be "coffee"? - rootti: no...
... items, ... Unicode.) ... Actually, excellent work, Marco, you pass with flying colours!!! ... word but quite popular, try again ... Tamil? -yes, but I have...
... You could probably disregard any Unicode label or transliteration for certain Tamil vowels. I do. Got me lots of criticism last spring too. Try the Adami...
Does anyone know who first suggested that the Coptic additional letters came from Demotic, and who first found the specific source characters? And were there...
Does anyone know of an Asomtavruli font I can download? (Preferably PostScript.) I tried all the links at the Omniglot site and found a TrueType one whose name...
... There should not have been a pulli on the first consonant - definitely not allowed - so 'kari' Short 'u' is transliterated with the short 'a' vowel....
Hi Wolfgang. ... Thank you! I'll study this (and the Tamil one) over the week-end. BTW, this didn't appear on Qalam because we cannot use attachments anymore. ...
... The link shows up purple, so that must be among the ones I tried (from Omniglot), and they don't work on the main platform used _yesterday_, Mac OS 8.6....
... I have slightly modified the Tamil list adding a few words. http://livingstone.vsb.bc.ca/multiliteracy/languagelinks/t_list.htm However, I don't know of...
... The words I mentioned were just examples of the kind of words I used for other languages. I don't want to use exactly the same words for all the languages,...
{ Sorry for sending a second copy of this message. I realized that I used a word which might be blocked by some e-mail filters, as it is normally a hint of...
... Any language that disallows initial clusters will have a way of dealing with them; Catalan, for instance, prefixes e- to any English word starting with...
... dealing ... Yes, I am familiar with that in Spanish. ... prefix ... I have never noticed that Tamil disallows initial vowels of any kind - they seem to be...
... I am thinking of K. Paramasivan (he made us call him K.P., and even in his publications he never spelled out his first name), who called my language...
... Italians. ... are very ... from Chinese ... Naan is the new comfort food of Vancouver. However, we still love a good spaghetti. ... you can eat ... ...
... even in ... my ... first ... I ... I had never noticed that but will look out for it now. I am no phonologist but the pure vowel, any vowel, as initial...
... Yes, what is Deepavali? ... That would be an ASCII workaround. The final letter is normally transliterated z with dot under, l with bar under, or r with...
... Yes, thank you - as well as eating naan bread we celebrate Divali in school and Chinese New Years, of course. I realised after posting it that it wouldn't...
... Tamil actually does do what Peter is talking about. Written Tamil(Tamizh, since there're no aspirates in Tamil) has initial vowel onsets, i.e. <iran.t.u>...
... Written ... Thamizh is the Adami transliteration of Tamil. 'th' indicates front 't' rather than retroflex. In context I really should have used the Unicode...
Many thanks to Suzanne and Wolfgang (who privately contributed Tamil and Telugu wordlists -- with Cyrillic transliteration!): I am now OK with Tamil and...
... "Honolulu"?? He's saying "all rooty", a distorted form of "all right" to force the rhyme. The l's aren't realized, as is often the case. The author of the...
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