[sword-devel] Soft hyphens

[David Haslam]

Michael Hart's example from Cebuano (a language of the Philippines) should be
treated with a degree of caution before transferring the described method to
any of the Bantu languages in Africa.

This caution may be warranted on the grounds that the alphabets of several
Bantu languages contain digraphs such as `mb` and `nd` where two latin
consonants are joined to symbolise one sound.

Merely doing the analysis on latin consonants would therefore lead into all
sorts of problems.

Even a language nearer to my home such as Welsh has an alphabet that
contains several digraphs.

Best regards,

David







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