... I'm intrigued by the statement, 'other questions such as the handling of diacritics in extended Latin scripts are still being raised'. Is this simply a...
Hi Richard, This was quickly written, and the intent was to allude to placement of combining diacritics in some languages, something that is managed better...
... I suspect that it is referring to the possibility that many users are unaware of the factors that influence the rendering of combining diacritics or...
Although of prime interest to linguists (and dilettantes of that ilk), this appears to have some items of interest concerning writing systems. Warning: It's a...
Seems to me that Qalam doesn't mind specificity... From Wikipedia, at the URL given below. "Some of the above characters are not supported in all character ...
Interesting - thanks for the reference. If I had time I would enter a few African languages. Would be great to see some more specifics on major languages using...
The following website reports about a new transcription for the Yoruba language called "Yorubax Transcript". Accents are no longer used. A 10,000 word...
Is there any evidence that this spelling reform-cum-dating service is known to, let alone accepted by, writers of Yoruba generally? Is any reason given for...
What character is transliterated from cuneiform Hittite as -ah- (with a breve below the 'h')? From the spellings given in p68 of 'The World's Writing Systems'...
First of all, Hittite scribes did not have a "Unicode Standard"; it's entirely reasonable that different scribes or different generations used slightly...
... it's entirely reasonable that different scribes or different generations used slightly different forms of a sign. The Unicode standard allows considerable...
Don't complain I'm shouting at you -- yahoogroups is very unforgiving about interpolating comments in different fonts or whatever, and yahoo email doesn't do...
FYI, AWLL has a web presence at http://www.ru.nl/WrittenLanguage/ From their webpage: "The purpose of the Association for Written Language and Literacy (AWLL) ...
... SYLLABLES, JUST TO SEQUENCES OF CONSONANTS. It looks as though Kharoshthi also had CVC units. Unfortunately I only have the Unicode Standard and the...
If you will consult e.g. Masica, *The Indo-Aryan Languages*, you will learn that Prakrits basically didn't have clusters, hence the rarity of Kharaosthi...
... will learn that Prakrits basically didn't have clusters, hence the rarity of Kharaosthi conjuncts in general, and the nonexistence of CVC syllables. Well,...
... It was rather late at night when I came to that conclusion. The answer, of course, is that a CVC.CV rendering would use the ZWNJ character. The only...
{Sorry for the delay. This message had been automatically flagged as "spam", don't know why... Perhaps Yahoo-Group's robots think that "Kharosthi" is a brand...
... "spam", don't know why... Perhaps Yahoo-Group's robots think that "Kharosthi" is a brand of "Vi@gra"? :-) One spam detection technique is to assume that...
That certainly doesn't apply to some of the yahoo groups I receive, such as ANE-2 List. -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@... ... From: Richard Wordingham...
That certainly doesn't apply to some of the yahoo groups I receive, such as ANE-2 List. -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@... ... From: Richard Wordingham...
... Strange: spam is the one place I'd expect to find *no* quoted matter. Perhaps it's a netiquette thing rather than a spam thing -- designed to teach a...
That certainly doesn't apply to some of the yahoo groups I receive, such as ANE-2 List. -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@... ... From: Richard Wordingham...
That certainly doesn't apply to some of the yahoo groups I receive, such as ANE-2 List. -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@... ... From: Richard Wordingham...
... written with any sort of regularity, Maybe, but Andrew Glass writes in his thesis, 'The sign for OIA visarga consists of two dots placed above the...
... written with any sort of regularity, Maybe, but Andrew Glass writes in his thesis, 'The sign for OIA visarga consists of two dots placed above the...
... written with any sort of regularity, Maybe, but Andrew Glass writes in his thesis, 'The sign for OIA visarga consists of two dots placed above the...
... Strange: spam is the one place I'd expect to find *no* quoted matter. Perhaps it's a netiquette thing rather than a spam thing -- designed to teach a...
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