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1757
The recent announcement by Morocco that Berber will be taught in schools using the Tifinagh script* and an observation of Tifinagh signs in parts of Algeria**...
Don Osborn
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Oct 2, 2003
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1758
This seems like a fairly major development (especially to me who has been wanting to learn it for some time now and is now thinking about enrolling in moroccan...
Gabriella F. Scelta
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Oct 3, 2003
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1759
I don't know a lot about the background, but there's politics involved, apparently (but the issue is not new), and one contact indicated that there were some...
Don Osborn
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Oct 3, 2003
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The September 2003 issue of Johns Hopkins Magazine has a nice piece on the Initiative for Cuneiform Encoding (ICE) entitled "Clay, Paper, Code." See ...
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Greetings all, I have uploaded at http://www.geocities.com/jglavy/asian.html, a revised version of my Balinese and Javanese fonts and accompanied it with a ...
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Oct 5, 2003
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Gabriella, Some interesting info and a bibliography have been posted on the Unicode-Afrique group as part of an ongoing exchange on Berber that has shifted to...
Don Osborn
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Oct 9, 2003
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A Randall Hunt sent me an e-mail, but his return address didn't work. -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@......
Peter T. Daniels
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Oct 13, 2003
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... -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@......
Peter T. Daniels
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1765
That's a quite-enjoyable article. It quickly reminded me of FLAAR, <www.flaar.org>, which got its start making very-high-quality digital photos (including...
Nicholas Bodley
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Oct 17, 2003
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Sorry for the follow-up; FLAAR might not have started quite as I implied. They did do photography in Latin Anerican museums, though. As well,this is really...
Nicholas Bodley
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Oct 17, 2003
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This site seems to require Flash. While hardly scholarly, it is interesting in that it's a calendar-clock, but in which the digit updates are all fairly-small...
Nicholas Bodley
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Oct 20, 2003
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I wrote a description about that subject, then came to my senses, and Googled. Here's the first hit: <http://www.io.com/~iareth/codindx.html> Reading the text...
Nicholas Bodley
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Nov 4, 2003
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... Neither Bodley's message nor Geist's Web site mention the year, or even the century, in which the Codex was written. That might provide some insight....
Doug Ewell
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Nov 4, 2003
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... As far as I can remember, it dates back to the middle of the 1980's. It was probably 1984 or 1985: the publishing house (Franco Maria Ricci, Milan) was on...
Marco Cimarosti
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Nov 4, 2003
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... It's quite likely to be a late-20th Century work. Regards, -- Nicholas Bodley <#o#> Waltham, Mass. <nbodley@...> Using Opera browser 7.22 (3221)...
Nicholas Bodley
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Nov 4, 2003
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... It was first published in 1981, and presumably written a fairly short time before that. Luigi Serafini, the author, was born in 1949. -- "What has four...
John Cowan
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Nov 4, 2003
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1773
... The American edition is New York: Abbeville, 1983; the title page, copyright page, and jackect copy are typset in English, and all the rest is presumably...
Peter T. Daniels
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Nov 4, 2003
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1774
I need someone to think of a quick example, off the top of their head, of a language (and example word) that uses the voiced velar fricative, the voiced...
Doug Ewell
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Nov 5, 2003
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1775
Irish. German. Arabic. Lots and lots of languages have this sound. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com...
Michael Everson
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Nov 5, 2003
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1776
... Topically, In Dutch, it's spelled with <g>. In Arabic, it's spelled with the <`> letter with a dot on top (ghain). -- Peter T. Daniels...
Peter T. Daniels
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Nov 5, 2003
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The Dutch one isn't all that voiced though. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com...
Michael Everson
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Nov 5, 2003
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******************************************************** J E P 2 0 0 4 - T A L N 2 0 0 4 - Special Session - ... ARABIC LANGUAGE PROCESSING Call for...
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Nov 6, 2003
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1779
BTW, with all this talk (on Unicode) about hexadecimal digits and "Doug's private alphabet," I should mention that I've added some better charts and examples...
Doug Ewell
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Nov 12, 2003
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On Thursday, 20 November 2003, from 16:00-17:00 GMT (11:00-12:00 EST, 08:00-09:00 PST) I will be interviewed live on The Connection, a NPR radio programme...
Michael Everson
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Nov 18, 2003
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Yippee! Right in my home territory. This is one of my favorite radio shows; your host will probably be Dick Gordon, hired away from CBC radio; by then, he ...
Nicholas Bodley
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Nov 19, 2003
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... WNYC used to play it in the evening, but it was bumped for yet another hour of BBC. -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@......
Peter T. Daniels
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Nov 19, 2003
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... Well, I will be speaking in Dublin at 16:00, so there isn't much chance of my beingg aired at 10:00 EST. ... Readers of Qalam can ask me anything they want...
Michael Everson
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Nov 19, 2003
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Regarding the interview tomorrow, see http://www.wbur.org/schedule/ for the schedule. :-) -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * *...
Michael Everson
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Nov 19, 2003
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The link to the interview is at http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2003/11/20031120_b_main.asp -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * *...
Michael Everson
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Nov 20, 2003
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If anyone can find, or create, a text transcript of this show, I would appreciate it. I didn't get to hear the broadcast, and I don't have a computer with...
Doug Ewell
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