Hausa is generally written these days in a Latin script with three or four additional characters to represent implosive or ejective sounds (the difference...
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 06:36:36 -0000, Don Osborn <dzo@...> wrote: [...] ... None of value; only that I find it delightful to read about such rarities, ...
If any classical Greek scholars on the list have an answer to the riddle at http://www.jelks.nu/demo/greek.html I would be very grateful. Thanks, /Jelks...
... The Greek perispomeni accent can be written as either a tilde-like form or as an inverted-breve. So it is likely that you are looking at perispomeni. In...
... Further to that: if the book you are transcribing was published in Britain, this increases the chance that perispomeni will use the inverted-breve form....
... English. ... Arabic, ... appearing ... was the ... names ... lowercase ... rendition ... to be the ... whose ... So, apparently, there are three totally...
Marco Cimarosti
marco.cimarosti@...
Feb 16, 2004 9:51 am
2036
International Mother Language Day has been observed annually on February 21 since its establishment by the UN in 1999. This year there will apparently also be...
Is anyone working on (academically or in ICT) Nubian languages, in particular the script(s)? I had a question from a someone on this and know little about it....
Thanks, Michael. I've been contacted by a member of a group working to promote Nubian languages. One of their interests is encoding the necessary characters. I...
Hello, I am working on the influence of writing direction on the organization of space (ex: scientific charts will have the coordinates origin to the left in a...
[Sorry for the delay in responding to this!] ... Bingo! Those are indeed the letters in question. I'm surprised I didn't see them as many times as I looked...
... Update: It's not a Stigma! The answer (for the curious) is at the bottom of the updated URL above, where I also question Unicode relegating Coptic to "just...
... The next version of Unicode will disunify Coptic and Greek, adding alfa, vida, gamma, dalda, eie, sou (Coptic stigma, used only as a number), zata, hate,...
... Wow, that's good to know. Thanks, John! Does anyone happen to know when we'll likely see Unicode 4.1? And do they, by the way, issue the "big book" on .1...
... Oops. I sent before I added the last bit, namely that 4.1 will apparently add Buginese, Glagolitic, Phags-pa, Syloti Nagri, Kharoshthi, and Old Persian...
... No. You use U+0305 COMBINING OVERLINE for that, not U+0304 COMBINING MACRON. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com...
... That's font-dependent. The combining overline (as opposed to the macron) guarantees continuity with its neighbors, and is specified for use with ...
Dear Qalamites, I am trying to find out whether the following writing systems still in current use. Beside each script, in parentheses, is my current...
Marco Cimarosti
marco.cimarosti@...
Apr 2, 2004 10:48 am
2056
... Of course it's still used! Cherokee is one of the few Native American languages that may not be endangered, and Cherokee literacy is a proud attribute of...
... I do not doubt that the Cherokee Nation is literate: the point I am trying to determine is whether Cherokee literacy is (exclusively or mainly) expressed...
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