On 6/17/06, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 08:26:12AM -0600, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
And there's at least one more possibility: today I happened to notice that there's also a Unicode double apostrophe character, U+02EE. I'm not sure, but it might be tailor-made for Neopolitan.
Again, there are multiple Unicode double apostrophe characters, but this one is also not punctuation but a letter: "modifier letter double apostrophe".
Which, if I correctly followed all the earlier conversation, means that yes, it's exactly what the Neapolitan people want.
OK. Now I understand the context of this discussion more fully. I do not know much about Neapolitan so I cannot say whether it has a letter which looks like a double quote or whether it has a letter which looks like an apostrophe which can occur as a double letter. That would be an important difference.
What I can say is that at least one indigenous language of Mexico, Amuzgo, uses a letter which looks like an apostrophe which can occur as a double letter. So the situation is certainly possible. I doubt anybody is likely to start an Amuzgo Wikipedia any time soon though considering the small number of speakers.
Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)
Cheers,
-- jra
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