04-03-2025, 05:33 PM
(03-02-2025, 08:28 PM)R. Sale wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Somehow it seems strange to me that the changing of a diacritical marking is going to alter the meaning of the vord itself. Diacritical markings only modify the relevant letter, but they do not change it to a different letter. Are there any examples in relevant languages where this situation of 'macron duality' exists? Is there a real difference between the markings, or is it just a case of multiple scribes and not the neatest examples of handwriting? Is there a VMs version of 'moon' without any macron?
Are diacritical marks used for vowels, or for consonants? It may depend on the reference language.
According to the article entitled "You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view." by Beáta Megyesi, Crina Tudor, Benedek Láng, Anna Lehofer, Nils Kopal, Karl de Leeuw, and Michelle Waldispühl (2022):
"Instead of introducing new symbols, diacritics could be used to distinguish between codes. Diacritics appear in 40% of the nomenclatures from the 15th century to separate codes, but their usage became less frequent over time as digits became more popular for encoding. Diacritics occur mostly with graphic signs (G), followed by alphabetical letters (A), and less likely to occur with digits (D)."
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