At 10:28 -0600 2002-03-26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >FYI, Lincom Europa has a new book on written Oirat. See > >http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-804.html > >and > >http://home.t-online.de/home/LINCOM.EUROPA/nl.htm
Sigh. My copy arrived today. By "Written Oirat" the author Attila Rákos means "the traditional literary language of the Western Mongols". As such the book is a fine little reference grammar for literary Oirat. But there are only two pages of charts on the writing system and no examples. Short vowels: A E I O Ö U Ü Long vowels: AA EE IYI OO ÖÖ UU/OU ÜÜ/ÖÜ Other compound letters: II UU U Consonants: N NG X GH B S SH T D L M C/CH Z/JH Y K' K' Q G R Yes, two examples of K' with different glyphs. I suspect an error for K and K'. There is a chart at the beginning which show which consonants can occur in which positions in a word. All in all, it'll be useful, but not by itself, for looking at Oirat at some stage. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
