On 11/22/2011 10:30 AM, Linda Mooney wrote:
Greetings!
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The mark over the 'a' in 'ä' is, for example, called a diaresis in English
and an umlaut in German.
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Even in my English class it was called an umlaut, but that is the only one of
the marks (is that the proper term?) that I recognize. I have been following
this thread and I can see that there are many more marks than I have ever been
aware of. Somebody's (maybe everybody's) email editor is probably playing
tricks as the same marks, including those forwarded, are not shown consistently
in my inbox.
Can anyone offer a link with these marks that includes something about them,
and hopefully audible enunciation? I did check Google, and found listings for
en.wiktionary.org and www.tfode.com , but are there better references?
Thanks,
Linda
David Bond of Tachyon Software has some great pages
on this. For what you're asking about, check out:
http://www.tachyonsoft.com/uc0000.htm#U00C4
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Gilmore"<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 9:02:05 AM
Subject: Re: Terminology
The ‘inverted circumflex’, as in ‘ă’, is in fact more like a lower
semicircle than an inversion of the circumflex in ‘â’. It occur alone
and in combination with other marks, as in ‘ặ ’, ‘ắ’, and ‘ẵ’.
Linguists writing in English, in which it does not occur, sometimes
call it a cup. In the languages in which it is actually used it has
other names, different in each language. This is to be expected. The
mark over the 'a' in 'ä' is, for example, called a diaresis in English
and an umlaut in German.
John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
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