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2004-07-05 Thread Patrick Andries
Patrick Andries a écrit : http://www.evertype.com/alphabets/french.pdf Several remarks : ü seems not be be listed (see « würmien », « le würm », « argüer» now acceptable according to a recent spelling reform). Population of France is now 61,7 millions (including around 1,7 millions French citiz

Re: is "n with tilde" used in French language ?

2004-07-05 Thread Ted Hopp
On Monday, July 05, 2004 7:52 AM, António Martins-Tuválkin wrote: > From Spanish "cañón"? I'm sure there's an excellent reason to "keep" > the tilde but trash the acute... ;-) Possibly because, in Spanish, the accent simply indicates which syllable carries the stress (not otherwise changing the pr

Re: is "n with tilde" used in French language ?

2004-07-05 Thread Antoine Leca
On Monday, July 05, 2004 1:52 PM Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin va escriure: > From Spanish "cañón"? I'm sure there's an excellent reason to "keep" > the tilde but trash the acute... ;-) Yes: acute has a different meaning in French orthography (denotes a closed vowel, and can occur twice) than it has

Re: is "n with tilde" used in French language ?

2004-07-05 Thread Patrick Andries
Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin a écrit : On 2004.07.04, 19:50, Cristian Secarã <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I looked at different other sources and found no other mention about this character as being used for French language (however, my search was not exhaustive). Some French locales may includ

Re: is "n with tilde" used in French language ?

2004-07-05 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
On 2004.07.04, 19:50, Cristian Secarã <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I looked at different other sources and found no other mention about > this character as being used for French language (however, my search > was not exhaustive). Some French locales may include "ñ" to serve the needs of one of th

[Fwd: Re: is "n with tilde" used in French language ?]

2004-07-04 Thread Patrick Andries
Message original Sujet: Re: is "n with tilde" used in French language ? Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 21:31:28 +0100 De: Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pour: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Références: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 21:5

Re: is "n with tilde" used in French language ?

2004-07-04 Thread Patrick Andries
Cristian SecarÄ a Ãcrit : According to Michael Everson's site, "The Alphabets of Europe" page, the French .pdf, character à and à (Latin small / capital letter N with tilde) is used by the French alphabet. Not any alphabet taught in primary school I would say. But caÃon is in my Petit Larousse i

Re: is "n with tilde" used in French language ?

2004-07-04 Thread Michael Everson
At 21:50 +0300 2004-07-04, Cristian Secara˜ wrote: According to Michael Everson's site, "The Alphabets of Europe" page, the French .pdf, character ñ and Ñ (Latin small / capital letter N with tilde) is used by the French alphabet. The reason it is in that list is because there are some loanwords i

Re: is "n with tilde" used in French language ?

2004-07-04 Thread John Cowan
Stefan Persson scripsit: > I have only seen ñ in old French; however, old French also uses tilde > above lots of other characters, such as all vowels (ã?õ?) and a > lot of consonants, e.g. q?? (for the old spelling of "que"). Instead of > writing an "n", you often put a tilde over the

Re: is "n with tilde" used in French language ?

2004-07-04 Thread Stefan Persson
Cristian SecarÄ wrote: Should I understand that this charactere was only used in "old" French ? I have only seen à in old French; however, old French also uses tilde above lots of other characters, such as all vowels (ÃáÄÃÅá) and a lot of consonants, e.g. qÌ (for the old spelling of "que"). Inst

is "n with tilde" used in French language ?

2004-07-04 Thread Cristian Secară
According to Michael Everson's site, "The Alphabets of Europe" page, the French .pdf, character à and à (Latin small / capital letter N with tilde) is used by the French alphabet. I looked at different other sources and found no other mention about this character as being used for French language