Re: Yi Tone Symbols

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 5159
Date: 2005-07-25

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, ዳንኤል ያዕቆብ (Daniel Yacob)
<dyacob@...> wrote:
> Greets,
>
> While on the subject of Yi, does anyone know if there are symbols in
> the Yi syllabary that represent _only_ a tonal level? If so, which
> are they? I've seen some Yi charts of course but I know not to take
> them at face value.

As the only one reported to be mistransliterated in the Unicode names
is 'wu', which is actually the repetition symbol (as in SE Asian
Brahmi scripts), there would seem not to be.

Richard.

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