Stephan Stiller <[email protected]> wrote:
|It's occurring to me that the modern analogue to the quirky grammarian
|completing the table for the sake of symmetry would be the guy on the
|Unicode mailing list wanting to add characters to the Standard merely to
|complete a partial list :-)
I'd love to take part in the discussion if i could -- Linguists
are those girls and boys who had a taste for real value right from
the beginning. I.e., now that philosophy has been obsoleted. But
even otherwise. Sigh.
|Stephan
--steffen
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As far as I am aware, a proper 'null consonant' has only arisen when it
actually represents a glottal stop.
There's ㅇ in hangeul ("Hangul"; Korean). Hebrew ע was supposedly first
pharyngeal [ʕ], though it's nowadays standardly a glottal stop [ʔ] or
null ∅ (and you don't even need need a hiatus for this). It's not clear
to me to what extent it's correct to say that Arabic alif arose from a
glottal stop (given that it was effectively used for [a:] too).
(Thx for the info on Thai and Khmer.)
It's occurring to me that the modern analogue to the quirky grammarian
completing the table for the sake of symmetry would be the guy on the
Unicode mailing list wanting to add characters to the Standard merely to
complete a partial list :-)
Stephan
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