One of the members of the Multilingual_Literacy group, Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta of Örebro University in Sweden, asked about the number of the world's languages...
The most useful source I know for the number of written languages is the United Bible Societies' catalog of the languages of the world into which at least one...
Thanks, Peter. Any thoughts on "degrees of written" or classifications of how well established a writing system is? It's one thing to have an orthography or a...
The missionary enterprise generally includes instruction for the locals in reading their new Bible books, for what would be the purpose otherwise of...
The question wasn't how many writing systems are there, but how many languages are written. Blissymbolics isn't a writing system, and since Braille is a...
... Of course it is. It is a true ideographic writing system, used as the primary language by thousands of non-speaking people. It is a language; it has its...
We have been through this before. Under what definition of "writing" is Blissymbolics a writing system? It may be a language that operates exclusively in a...
... It is, um... written. With a pen. With chalk. With a computer. ... In my view, Bliss is a truly ideographic script. ... It's eponymous: The language is...
... There are some interesting qualitative differences besides literacy rates: (1) Are most speakers illiterate in every language? (2) Are speakers that are...
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... We've been through this before. Neither of you is going to agree on the definition of "writing system" and neither of you is going to be convinced by the ...
... How often is romanisation technology induced, though? Just about any system that can handle the ii with double-breve used in LoC transliteration of Russian...
Why don't you see if _you_ can get a definition of "writing system" out of him? It seems like a pretty basic desideratum for a discussion list that exists for...
Did you mean to send this to an individual? It appears that some spambot has discovered how to override yahoo's "protections" and post a message to a yahoo...
... The question, as posted, is ambigious. ... The reason for collecting the data, affects both the defintion of 'writing system", and the number. Example 1:...
... It was taken as shouting. If you want what you say to be read, please follow ordinary etiquette and provide it in ordinary text. I'm not going to re-type...
... I know what a writing system is, certainly. And I know a lot about Blissymbolics. I don't see how anyone is going to convince me that it isn't writing. ...
... I've received it on five lists (four yesterday and one last December), "From" five different addresses. Banning one may not do any good. -- Anton...
So you "know it when you see it," but you can't define it? That's not science. ("Exception that proves the rule" isn't science, either.) Do you understand the...
And you can continue to be an asshole on both counts. Verizon yahoo has two modes for messages from yahoo groups: either the entire block of message enters the...
Rejecting my explanation of the all-caps most certainly is an insult. All I'm asking is some reason to suppose you might be right. -- Peter T. Daniels...
... I wasn't thinking of such 'scientific' transliterations. Indeed, some transliterations are more difficult to type than the original! ... What I had in...
... Peter, you need an attitude check. I am not your enemy. I am a colleague who works very hard to ensure that the world's writing systems can be used with...
Here, for the third time, in a "less aggressive" "orthography" for the second time, is the question: What is your definition of "writing system," such that...
Guys, It is near unfathomable that two highly respected experts can carry on like this with name calling and hissy fits over capitalization. FWIW, it took me...
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