From: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Peter Kirk scripsit: > > > "U+F25A LATIN SMALL LETTER HENG" is probably not intended as an h-ng > > combination but as h with a hook, probably a glyph variant of F222. > > It represents the English phoneme "heng", which is realized as [h] > syllable-initially and [U+014B] finally.
Which words? "hungry", "hunger", "Hungary", "Henry" ? I don't know a syllable-initial /h/ in English out of word-initial /h/... And even in that case, I think this comes from contracted phonetic of fast or popular speech, where there's an intermediate schwa between /h/ and /ng/ to detach the two consonnantal phonemes even if the intermediate vowel is not pronounced. May be I don't know English enough to find such example, or this is a matter of pronunciation accents (American English?) with which I'm not used to, and that I did not learn. Just curious...
