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- From: arantamaki@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi
- Subject: Re: Finnish question
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.121929.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi>
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- Organization: Nokia Telecommunications.
- References: <1992Jul23.135758.2304@dde.dk>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 10:19:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.135758.2304@dde.dk>, ct@dde.dk (Claus Tondering) writes:
- > ISO standard 6937 mentions that the Finnish language uses two characters
- > that look like S and Z with a small v above (a hacek accent).
- >
- > I have never seen any Finnish text that uses these two characters.
- > Does Finnish use them? Or has Finnish used them in the past?
-
- To my knowledge, these characters are used only when transcribing
- foreign names in languages that do not use the Latin alphabet,
- especially Russian, e.g. Gorbatsov, Tsehov or Solzenitsyn.
- The Finnish language itself does not have these sounds. In newspapers,
- however, they are usually spelt Gorbatshov, Tshehov and
- Solzhenitsyn. I don't know about their usage in the past, though.
- I'd like to see that standard - what is it about?
-
- Annu Rantamaki (Last a in family name with two dots over it!)
-