> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Michael Everson
> >I had not proposed ones I know of before now as I expected they'd be > >about as well received as the two symbols created by Doke that I > >proposed last summer: the s and z with swash tail (they were not > >accepted at that time). > > Heavens, really? The bilabials? Desmond Cole discusses them (and > shows them) in his article "The History of African Linguistics to > 1945" in Current Trends in Linguistics, Vol. 7, Linguistics in > Sub-Saharan Africa. Are you serious? I missed that! In the very same volume (p. 648), the z (but not the s) is cited in A.N. Tucker's article "Orthographic systems and conventions in Sub-Saharan Africa." Peter Constable
