On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Yifán Wáng <[email protected]> wrote:
> Please excuse my serial posting. > > I recently noticed the subhead given to the LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL > Q in the following document (at A7AF) is "Letter for representation of > morpheme in Japanese". > http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16381-n4778r-pdam1-2-charts.pdf > > However, to my knowledge, the letter is required for describing a > "phoneme" of Japanese that isn't tied to specific "morphemes" (~ > "words"). I have contacted the original writer of the proposal: > http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15241-small-cap-q.pdf > and he agrees with me in this regard. > > Thus I suppose "Letter for Japanese phonology" would be more desired a > heading for this character, though subheads are not normative. What > are your thoughts? > AIUI it's not really a phoneme either; it represents gemination of a following consonant. A chroneme?
