Re: Second invention of the alphabet?

cowan@... wrote:

>
> Peter T. Daniels scripsit:
>
> > I bet those are Unicode names for the letters -- what's VEYZ? What's SIN
> > DOT in SIN?
>
> I never know if your questions are real or rhetorical.
>
> "Veyz" is not a Unicode name, it's a term used in the Yiddish context for
> bet with rafe. It normally occurs only in words of Hebrew origin.
> The Unicode name is HEBREW LETTER BET WITH RAFE.

There's no justification for /z/; it's the spirantization of /t/, and
the name of the letter is veys.

> SIN DOT is a Unicode name (in full HEBREW POINT SIN DOT) for the dot used
> to distinguish sin from shin. Sin, again, is only used in Hebrew borrowings.
> Yiddish normally writes shin with no dot.

Then it could be SIN DOT over SHIN.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...