RE: VMs: Has anyone been down this route before?

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

31/08/2004 7:44:39 AM, "Brian Tawney" <btawney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>is
>there a table all of the apparent allographs anywhere? 

Not to my knowledge. There is something, in Cryptologia Vol.XV, 
No.3 (July 1991), p.217, a frequency table showing <a> and <ee>
in almost perfect mutually exclusive distribution. On pages
215/216 I argues that <y> might be a word-final allograph
of <o>, <a>, <e>, or <ee>, possibly of all four of them,
in which case they would be vowels the distinctive features
of which become neutralized in word-final position. Why
vowels and not consonants? After all, Sanskrit does similar
things with word-final consonants, doesn't it? Because:
1. Sukhotin's algorithm identifies them as vowels.
2. They look like the vowels of medieval scripts like
   Beneventan


There is more stuff by me in the archives on the subject.
I remember suggesting that <ol> was effectively "ou"
to be pronounced [u] just like in French, Greek, or Armenian.
(No, not Armenian, because at the time I knew no Armenian,
but now I do)


>Ambula baniha.  Bi geli manju gisun be gisureme bahanambi :)

What dialect is THAT??? I don't recognize a single word.
It does not even look like Arabic.



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