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From: mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer)
Subject: Re: Breves (Re: Diacritic symbol names)
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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 04:48:11 GMT
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In article <donhCyIr8t.DIx@netcom.com>, Don HARLOW <donh@netcom.com> wrote:
>iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski) skribis en lastatempa afisxo <CyGKLu.Ktz@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>:
>>
>>Anyway, I'm not saying that there was anything wrong with giving _c_
>>and _j_ their Polish values.  Re _u_-breve, I favour the explanation
>>that it was introduced because /w/ mostly occurred in such positions
>>where the source languages used simply _u_.  (For an alternative,
>
>Might be worth suggesting here that the form _u_-breve was most likely 
>modelled on the Russian _i_-kratkoje (i-breve).
>

Belorussian has a u-kratkoe, in both Cyrillic and Latin scripts.

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