И with lunate breve is not a letter of the alphabet, the breve is just an indication to the reader of the dictionary that the И in this particular word is pronounced short. While there may be homographs that differ in pronunciation only by the vowel length, the alphabet doesn't provide for that distinction.
Leo On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Richard Wordingham < [email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 13:08:42 -0700 > Leo Broukhis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The difference is real and intentional, but isn't it akin to the > > difference between (IIRC a discussion several years ago) the > > Polish/Czech acute and the French acute - the former is more > > vertical? > > Not really. Look at the third entry at > http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/Forest_Nenets_short_i_1.jpg , where > the two occur side-by-side. Unification should depend on their being > contextual variants or one another, and difficult in laying down rules > is the justification for U+017F LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S being a > separate character. > > Richard. >
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