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Romanian language geekery
We're singing a Romanian song Sculați gazde nu dormiți in Balkan choir, so I sent out some pronunciation links. Posting them here so I can find them again in the future, and maybe folks here are interested too.
Here's a quick reference for Romanian pronunciation: socalfolkdance.org/resources/romanian.htm
And a more detailed reference on the language, including an alphabet pronunciation video: omniglot.com/writing/romanian.htm
I got curious and looked up the diacriticals. This curved diacritical ă is called a breve, pronounced "breev" or "brehv." This one with the point up â is a circumflex, and this one with the point down ǎ is a haček "hachek" (not used in Romanian, included for comparison). Source: altcodeunicode.com/alt-codes-letter-a-with-accents/
From the omniglot page in the Romanian pronunciation notes section, Romanian is one of the few languages that uses the letters s and t with a comma below (ș, ț). Using a cedilla instead (ş, ţ) is considered incorrect by the Romanian Academy.
Here's a quick reference for Romanian pronunciation: socalfolkdance.org/resources/romanian.htm
And a more detailed reference on the language, including an alphabet pronunciation video: omniglot.com/writing/romanian.htm
I got curious and looked up the diacriticals. This curved diacritical ă is called a breve, pronounced "breev" or "brehv." This one with the point up â is a circumflex, and this one with the point down ǎ is a haček "hachek" (not used in Romanian, included for comparison). Source: altcodeunicode.com/alt-codes-letter-a-with-accents/
From the omniglot page in the Romanian pronunciation notes section, Romanian is one of the few languages that uses the letters s and t with a comma below (ș, ț). Using a cedilla instead (ş, ţ) is considered incorrect by the Romanian Academy.
Hooray for Unicode!
Recognizing the difference between the breve and the haçek is not easy, even for my typographical-trained eye at 125% zoom.
Re: Hooray for Unicode!
Yeah, I remember when all those characters broke people's emails. Now they all work, and they're easy to enter on a Mac - hold down a letter, and get a little diacritical chooser for all the versions of that letter.