tags for written or spoken content, was Swiss german, spoken

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Sun Jun 12 12:27:28 CEST 2005


At 20:58 -0400 2005-06-11, John.Cowan wrote:
>Michael Everson scripsit:
>>  Tex,
>>
>>  Schwyzertüütsch has one or more than one
>>  orthography, relating to one or more tha one
>>  dialect.
>
>Or it may have none.  Burushaski lacks an orthography, though it may be
>transcribed using IPA or otherwise.

That would be an orthography. A "practical 
orthography" is another thing, though it ignores 
the fact that many orthographies re not 
particularly "practical".
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