Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrivit : > At 08:11 -0400 2003-07-12, Patrick Andries wrote: > > >Just out of curiosity, why was « iw » deprecated ? Seems perfectly fine to > >me. And why was « he » chosen (Herero, Hemba, Hellenic Greek) ? > > Iwrit (iw), being a German transliteration of the name of the Hebrew > language, and Jiddisch (ji) were both thought (by someone) to be less > suitable than the English-based "he" and "yi" which replaced them.
This is also what I concluded, but «iv» for ivrit could have pleased those who thought the transliteration must be English-based (what a strange idea!). P. A.
