Hi Suzanne ... <...> ... Here's the story, from SR RAMSEY, The Languages of China, Princeton University Press, 1987, page 116: "Our history of the sounds of...
Gianni Vacca
xiongyaliren@...
Feb 1, 2005 6:03 pm
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... And, apparently, the fact that lowecase "e" and "c" look like each other is enough to make this post on-topic... -- Marco...
... Uh? Actually I did not mean this as an hypotheis, but just as the statement of as a self-evident matter of fact... Aren't Cree syllables with the same...
... But that particular musical direction is "con dolcessa," no? SOme years ago I didn't pay attention to an interview where she explained the origin to...
Gianni Vacca wrote:
> Before Bopomofo or Pinyin were devised, the Chinese
> had big matrix-like charts with initials and finals
> that one would use to learn...
... No, "con dolcezza" (pron. [kondol'tSets:a]). "Con dolcessa" (or actually "côn dôlcèssa", pron. [ku~dultSEsa]) is how it would be spelled in my own...
... naive ... indicate ... statement ... same shape ... naive ... indicate ... statement ... same shape ... Some of the transformations are rotations but most...
I was talking yesterday about a table of Chinese characters used to transliterate foreign names into Chinese, which I have seen on [Coulmas 1999]. I think it...
... How's that? He invented a writing system involving 4 orientations and then looked around for a language that had a tetrad of something-or-other and figured...
... Typically mis- or underinformed statement from that book (1996, BTW, not 1999). Quite a few (well-known) foreign names are rendered in Chinese with...
... to ... BTW, not ... Well, I don't think you believe that Coulmas could have *made*up* that table... But I agree that it would have been much better to have...
... (Library Journal reviewed it together with WWS, but I don't know what OUP could have provided to LJ's reviewer, since there were never bound galleys and...
... and ... No but he could have represented the 7 vowels with 7(6) different modifiers as Amharic has. However, he used four orientations instead, so 4 long...
... Chinese ... about the ... novel. When we performed Robin Hood in our ESL class last year we wrote a brief summary of the story in Chinese. I asked an...
Senza problema, Marco. The Chinese journalist will deliver her article on a certain "Marco Cimarosti" of Italy on time by simply consulting the "Yidali...
... If in his analysis there had been 7 vowels, he would have used 7 graphic distinctions. Do you claim Arabic has six vowels, or (like Arabists) that it has...
... no I didn't ... _that_ was my line ... he's known to anyone who's read about dyslexia ... but in English they're usually called the radical and the...
... graphic ... All descriptions of Cree phonology start by saying Cree has 7 vowels, 4 long and 3 short. Some say length is contrastive, others say there are...
... What descriptions of Cree phonology were available in 1840? ... I don't really believe in dyxlexia -- there can't be a single neural anomaly having to do...
6. yi = to translate, translation ming = name (same character as in "xingming") Check in your dictionary as follows: Yi: simplified Chinese character: radical...
... Ojibway rather - There was more than one roman orthography for Ojibway, but I don't have the references available or the expertise to continue this thread....
... Well, without looking at that particular website, a new writing system design would depend on the phonology of the language. Frequent syllables of the...
... think ... the ... but ... want to ... Thanks. I think my point at the time was that morphosyllabic and morphophonemic are more useful than logographic and...
... Oops. I made an error here. It should have been 1. syllabic - Japanese (with morphemic or morphosyllabic component) - Tamil (only minimally segmental)...
... If you continue to refuse to recognize the huge difference between syllabaries and abugidas, then I will have no alternative but to give you an F in my...
... give ... What course? I don't remember signing up. What about the influence of Sanskrit on the Japanese writing system? Maybe hiragana is a descendent of...
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