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Re: Finnish question

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From: sven hauptfeld
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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