On Oct 27, 2011, at 7:28 AM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > I think we discussed this or something similar a while back. T) >> Von: David Haslam <[email protected]> > >> As an aside, it may be observed that there are some languages in which the >> apostrophe is part of the alphabet, rather than being a punctuation mark. > > Is this truly an apostrophe or simply something looking like one?
>From what I can tell, some clicks in african languages is represented as an >apostrophe. (Apparently, there are different clicks having different symbols) >I have seen it represented by more than one unicode code point, the ascii >apostrophe and the stylized right closing apostrophe An example of this is Xhosa. I think we have a Xhosa Bible module. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_consonant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xhosa_language -- DM > > Peter > >> >> I recently encountered one such language, spoken in West Papua. >> >> David >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/XML-attribute-delimiters-in-OSIS-files-tp3907261p3943988.html >> Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > -- > Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir > belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.gmx.de > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
