Michael Everson wrote:

>
> At 16:51 -0400 2004-05-27, cowan@... wrote:
>
> >But the actual structure of the orthography is not much like German
> >at all. If it were, we'd see things like samech + khaf instead of
> >shin. Even alef ornans
>
> Shtumer alef is how I learned it.
>
> >reflects a vowel no longer pronounced.
>
> Or the Anlaut glottal stop, which is *not* marked in German orthography.
>
> >I should rather say that the Yiddish letters a and o are vowels with
> >vowel points under them.
>
> And the RAFE over VEYZ and FEY, and the SIN DOT in SIN, and the
> DAGESH in TOF and PEY and TOF, and the HIRIQ used with YOD, and the
> DAGESH used with VOV, and the PATAH used with double YOD in EY.

I bet those are Unicode names for the letters -- what's VEYZ? What's SIN
DOT in SIN?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...