... good ... <http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants /> ... where ... People might find SIL's IPA Help tool of interest: ...
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 09:52:52 -0800, Peter Constable ... Peachy! Thanks kindly! It's ~31 Mb as a .zip download; also available as three 10-MB files. I have ADSL,...
For a particularly pure example of a featural script, see http://www.zompist.com/elkwrite.htm . -- John Cowan www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com...
... Hmmmm... Created by a reincarnated Mayan scribe, who perhaps has studied Klingon. :) Best, -- Nicholas Bodley : o : Waltham, Mass. Speakeasy.net...
... Non-proposal for Elkarîl in the ConScript Unicode Registry 1. Script Description Elkarîl is a conlang invented by Mark Rosenfelder. Further information...
Marco Cimarosti
marco.cimarosti@...
Dec 5, 2003 2:55 pm
1800
A language with five points of articulation but no fricatives? Mark, Mark. -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@......
Hi, all, In case you're interested, a 3-week intensive class on Arabic calligraphy is being offered at San Francisco State University this Winter 2004 term....
Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> A language with five points of articulation but no fricatives? Mark,
> Mark.
It does have fricatives: "The type of stop is expressed...
Marco Cimarosti
marco.cimarosti@...
Dec 9, 2003 9:40 am
1804
**************************************************** J E P 2 0 0 4 - T A L N 2 0 0 4 - Special Session - ARABIC LANGUAGE PROCESSING TEXT & SPEECH ... ...
BOUALEM Malek FTRD/DM...
malek.boualem@...
Dec 9, 2003 12:30 pm
1805
... No, it isn't! But some versions of contemporary "phonological theory" insist that the nasals are "stops" because of the oral closure. -- Peter T. Daniels...
... Construe, construe, as Stalky says. "Stop" is certainly not a fricative, though it begins with a fricative (and ends with a stop). -- A mosquito cried...
hi all, does anyone have a count (and a reference for it if possible) for 1. how many scripts are in use today (living languages) in the world? 2. how many are...
... Just the other day I had occasion to draw up a list of (1), and the total is ca. 32 (depending where you draw the line). As for (2), how many different...
Gabriella F. Scelta wrote:
> does anyone have a count (and a reference for it if possible) for
> > 1. how many scripts are in use today (living languages) in...
Marco Cimarosti
marco.cimarosti@...
Dec 11, 2003 1:19 pm
1812
Gabriella F. Scelta wrote:
> does anyone have a count (and a reference for it if possible) for
> > 1. how many scripts are in use today (living languages) in...
Marco Cimarosti
marco.cimarosti@...
Dec 11, 2003 1:23 pm
1813
... The Roadmap makes it 52: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic, Thaana, N'Ko, Tifinagh, Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, ...
... I posted my answer 16 minutes before you posted yours. Everson just said "look at Unicode," which is unhelpful for two reasons. -- Peter T. Daniels...
... These are derived from Aramaic of course. ... Tai Le and Tifinagh are used quite regularly by some of their speakers. Cherokee enjoys persistent if not...
... Why? Blissymbolics are the *only* form of communication for some people. SignWriting is alive and kicking and getting more and more popular worldwide. -- ...
... 'Cause mine took 16 minutes more to type. :-) ... Are you in the mood for numeric answers today? Which are these two reasons? Perhaps I can guess one of...
Marco Cimarosti
marco.cimarosti@...
Dec 11, 2003 2:11 pm
1819
... You want their personal names? I have personally met any number of non-speaking people, cerebral palsics mostly, who are unable to communicate ...
... What's "the Roadmap," and on what basis is this or that item included in the list or not? It omits Syriac and (apparently) Chinese, and lists Japanese...
... I said "look at the Roadmap". That is a reasonable estimation of the number of scripts which are important enough to consider encoding. I have other things...
... If it lists Han ideographs, then obviously it covers Chinese. In any event, Unicode has a distinction between written language and script. The Japanese...
... Part of this discrepancy may be due to different perspectives, i.e. different reasons for counting. E.g., it doesn't make sense to consider katakana and...
Marco Cimarosti
marco.cimarosti@...
Dec 11, 2003 5:08 pm
1824
... http://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/ "These pages present proportional maps of actual and proposed allocations to Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646." ... No it...
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