At 12:20 PM 2001-07-07, Michael Everson wrote:
>At 11:16 -0700 2001-07-07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>Kana should be quite adequate for some other languages... Hawaiian? Oh,
>>hmmm, well, except for that darned L/R distinction which kana doesn't have...
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>Neither does Hawai'ian.
So then all you need is a kana rendering for a glottal stop-vowel syllable,
like 'i in hava'i or 'a in a'a (a type of lava). Based on the manga I have
seen, the most likely combination is the small 'tsu' followed by a vowel.
The 'tsu' sign in reduced form is traditionally used in Japanese for
consonant doubling (chyotto is written chi yo tsu to), but has been adapted
for glottal stops at the end of words.
If anyone cares, that is.
>--
>Michael Everson
Edward Cherlin
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