Re: r-grave

From: Marco Cimarosti
Message: 6114
Date: 2005-09-27

xiongyaliren wrote:
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Anton Sherwood <bronto@...> wrote:
> > Now I see that Unicode (v3) has, under "Additions for Slovenian and
> > Croatian", R with *double* grave (0210, 0211) - but I still can't
> find a
> > single grave! How strange.
>
> Well, I can't think of any language that'd use 'r grave'.

Probably not in regular orthography. It is used in Slovenian and
Serbocroatian dictionaries, to indicate that the stress falls on a syllable
whose nucleus (~= vowel) is "r".

--
Marco

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