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Re: Cyrillic vs. Latin representation

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Monday, December 15, 2008, 9:05
2008/12/14 Scotto Hlad <scott.hlad@...>:
> Nauradi's history includes a Cyrillic alphabet representation. It has the > sounds /g/, /h/, and /x/. Getting the /x/ is no problem, but how do I > represent the /h/ sound giving that I'm using the Cyrillic alphabet Г as > /g/. I know that Ukrainian uses Г to represent /h/
/h\/, I thought.
> and other Slavic > languages represent /h/ with Х. What's a person to do that needs both > sounds?
You could use Һ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shha), for example, which is used for /h/ in several Cyrillic-using languages. Or, if you're not absolutely wedded to Г as /g/, you could do the Ukrainian thing (sort of) and use Ґ for /g/ and Г for /h/. Or, as Dana pointed out, consider using Ҳ; according to Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_Kha ), it's /h/ in a number of languages that use it. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>