----- Message d'origine ----- De: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Patrick Andries scripsit: > > > Incidentally, I notice that the b of group 8's b� (in my Meillet and Cohen > > plural of ki) has a horizontal stroke across the lower stem of the b. I also > > noticed this in a transcription of a Mayotte language. Also used by Meillet > > and Cohen to note class 2 and class 8 prefix in Herero : respectively ob-a > > and ib-i. > > It's probably a glyphic variant of U+0180. In the case of Malgasy writing system (not Mayotte sorry) someone suggested to me that it may be phonetically equivalent to U+0253, the sample I have is � Kib-osi kima�re en orthographe malgache � which means � Malgache de Mayotte � (Mayotte being a French island off Madagascar). I will check the actually value and usage of this b in Malgasy. P. A.
