2020年7月7日 · The Brahmi knew Zeta. Resemblance for phonetic likeness is a possibility. One would want /t/ as a prototype--not Samek, which took the same development towards Xi, nor Sade, which looks like Arabic Numeral three now, or Epsilon from He ... if a straight development can be assumed at all, which is but frequently not the case, so that the visual ambiguity to …

2019年7月27日 · It is worth noting, that before the Cyrillic script there was the Glagolitic script used to write Old Church Slavonic. This is the script devised by Cyrill and Method, the Cyrillic script is a reform of the Glagolitic script. The Glagolitic script survived longest in Croatia where it was used for liturgical purposes.

The graphemes ś / с́ and ź / з́ are said to represent sounds unique amongst the Shtokavian languages, where they are palatalised variations of /s/ and /z/. I've seen this phoneme written as /ɕ/, /sʲ/ and /ç/ for ś and /ʝ/ for ź . So my question is this, which of these phonemes is correct.

2022年4月12日 · It's based on an analogy s : sh :: z : zh, where the first three graphemes already existed in English spelling. Since z represents the voiced counterpart to s , at least some English speakers find it fairly natural to use zh to represent the voiced counterpart to sh .

Thanks for a long answer, I appreciate it very much. But I consider Russian alphabet as a sign/symbol language. Even though I really like how Russian sounds. You can find my admiration of Russian in my previous posts. The Cyrillic is based more on the Greek alphabet and ё certainly is a diacritic symbol above e.

2023年7月18日 · Based on the pattern for accented letters, implementers often also expect to encounter formal decompositions for characters which use various overlaid diacritics such as slashes and bars to form new Latin (or Cyrillic) letters.

2021年12月16日 · The speakers at the time had no need for a "z" sound, so "G" took its place in the 7th slot in the alphabet. Later, the need for the "z" sound also came back, and "Z" was re-added; but "G" was now occupying the 7th slot in the alphabet, so "Z" was added at …

2012年8月6日 · Is the Cyrillic letter 'Z' the same as the number 3. Why do the Cyrillic 'Z'(З) and the number '3' seem ...

2021年5月9日 · Today the Cyrillic script is used by the East Slavs, such as the Russians and the Bulgarians, but the West Slavs (e.g. the Czechs, the Poles) and some South Slavs (e.g. the Croats, the Slovenes) use ...

2023年10月28日 · I think the term is graphematics.. I found the following definition in a German textbook (Busch & Stenschke, Germanistische Linguistik, Tübingen 2013, p. 59): G. "Graphematik" = "the discipline that determines the distinctive units of writing systems of a particular language, and, based on that, the possible written representations of spoken …