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Subject: Re: Lesson One in the Free Esperanto Pos
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Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 02:23:00 EST
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/***** uokvax:net.nlang / ptsfc!rjw /  1:26 pm  Jan 11, 1985 */
In the meantime, can someone explain the usage of the '^' in some
esperanto words? 
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In the words of Curly, "soitinly!"

The prefixed "^" is used before a letter above which one would see either
a circumflex accent (for c, g, j, h) or a--aargh, I forget the name of the
glyph (it looks like a circumflex accent upside down, and shows up in
dictionaries to indicate that the "short" sound of a vowel is desired)--
well, whatever it is (for u). The latter usage indicates a dipthong, the
former marks a distinct letter in the Esperanto alphabet with its own
pronunciation (the c /ts/ becomes ^c /ch/, g /g/ becomes ^g /j/,
j /y/ becomes ^j /zh/, h /h/ becomes ^h /kh/, although ^h seems to be
dying out--it's seen in e^ho (echo) and ^horo (chorus--^h seems to be
turning into k, but koro (heart) is already taken)).

						James Jones