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Article #220Re: Finnish question
From: ba07479
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 04:14
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 04:14
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CT: Claus Tondering in article <1992Jul23.135758.2304@dde.dk> > >CT: ISO standard 6937 mentions that the Finnish language uses two characters >CT: that look like S and Z with a small v above (a hacek accent). >CT: I have never seen any Finnish text that uses these two characters. >CT: Does Finnish use them? Or has Finnish used them in the past? > Someone seemed to suggest that these symbols were not used anywhere else in the world other than in Roman transcriptions of Cyrillic texts. In fact, they are both used in Czech and Serbo-Croatian, and the s-hacek is used in Esperanto. That's all I can think of, but there may be more. :) Angus Grieve-Smith ba07479@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu
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Newsgroups: sci.lang,eunet.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!rpi!sarah!newserve!bingnews!ba07479 From: ba07479@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (ba07479) Subject: Re: Finnish question In-Reply-To: matthew@ntl02.decnet.nokia.fi's message of Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14: 37:37 GMT Message-ID: <BA07479.92Jul30231450@bingsunn.cc.binghamton.edu> Sender: usenet@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu (Mr News) Nntp-Posting-Host: bingsunn.pod.binghamton.edu Organization: Binghamton University Computing Services References: <1992Jul23.135758.2304@dde.dk> <JHEIKKIL.92Jul30133020@utrio.helsinki.fi> <MATTHEW.92Jul30143824@matthew.ntl02.decnet.nokia.fi> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 04:14:49 GMT Lines: 20