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Article #330Re: Finnish question
From: sven hauptfeld
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1992 06:17
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1992 06:17
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In article <BA07479.92Jul30231450@bingsunn.cc.binghamton.edu> ba07479@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (ba07479) writes: > >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 Chech yes, Serbian and Croatian yes, but in Esperanto it is ^ rather than v: ^ ^ Cu li amas sin? = Does he love her? ^ Gis la revido! = Goodbye! Sven Hauptfeld
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Newsgroups: sci.lang,eunet.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!gumby!destroyer!ncar!uchinews!ellis!hau4 From: hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven hauptfeld) Subject: Re: Finnish question Message-ID: <1992Aug9.061707.12414@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Reply-To: hau4@midway.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations References: <JHEIKKIL.92Jul30133020@utrio.helsinki.fi> <MATTHEW.92Jul30143824@matthew.ntl02.decnet.nokia.fi> <BA07479.92Jul30231450@bingsunn.cc.binghamton.edu> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1992 06:17:07 GMT Lines: 30