Peter, I am not sure I have samples of Bodoni's oriental fonts, but I do have some Caslon samples. I'm in New York and can't get to it till next week. -- ...
Hello, Does anyone have any pictures of the old Lisu script. I only found something called "the Fraser script" on the Internet but I've heard that there is ...
Good day, qalamites. I am seeking for an example of an abjad which uses vowel diacritics (optionally, of course) but does *not* use matres lectionis. Did such...
Marco Cimarosti
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May 7, 2004 6:13 pm
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... Well, Tengwar had mandatory vowel points from the beginning, and later was used in a fully alphabetic way, but never went through a _mater lectionis_ ...
... You're in New York and you didn't call?? Today I browsed the typography sections of Coliseum Books on 42nd St. bet. Fifth & Sixth (formerly 57th & Bway,...
... I didn't know you were in New York! I'm still in New York, till Sunday night. I plan to be in the NYPL tomorrow working for much of the day before John...
... The only language whose abjad didn't use matres was Phoenician, and Phoenician was long gone before vowel pointing was invented. -- Peter T. Daniels...
... --Reply-- Would you have samples of phonetic letters, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Armenian, and Georgian in Bodoni and Caslon? Please send me scans...
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... The Berber scripts? ... Inherent vowel and virama, what else makes an abugida? And while there are no matres lectionis in the tengwar, the analysis of long...
machhezan wrote:
> Marco Cimarosti scripsit:
> > > I am seeking for an example of an abjad which uses vowel
> > > diacritics (optionally, of course) but does...
Marco Cimarosti
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May 10, 2004 8:33 am
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I also think that the Berber scripts write but the consonants. I didn't know that 'abjads' are distinguished from consonantic scripts. ... Like that, this...
... A grapheme of a given script is a unit which a graphemosystematically naive user of the script is disposed to point at and say without hedging "This is a...
... Do we define "phoneme" no more generally than "a phoneme of a given language is ..."? If we did that, how would we be able to identify the phonemes of a...
... From what I understand, linguists do not deal in phonemes any more, except in the restricted sense in which physicists deal in Newtonian physics: a useful...
... I didn't ask you to define the phonemes of a given language; I noted that a definition of "phoneme" exists and is applicable to the defining of phonemes of...
... Ever since Halle 1959, The Sound Pattern of Russian. (His point was that in Russian, some vd/vl pairs are phonemic and some aren't but are merely...
... The purpose of establishing a term for "a class of written marks which the participants in a tradition of writing recognize, without hedging, as ...
... IOW, it's not the slightest bit like a phoneme, a morpheme, a tagmeme, etc.; so why should it be an -eme word? ... <a> is a grapheme, and <A> is a...
... As I said, I solicit an alternative term that is less misleading. ... No, no, no, and no. ... I don't know. ... Indeed it is, and I agree: there is no /x/...
... Many dialects of English have /x/. You can call English in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland "contaminated" but I don't think it's right to do so. The sounds...
... No, I capture the relationship between them by the abstract relationship called case, which operates in only five scripts (in the Unicode sense of...
Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> What are the graphemes of Chinese?
Well, it is obvious that a Chinese logogram such as "媽" ("ma¹" = "mother")
is composed of a...
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