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6800
http://www.graphicsmash.com/comics/killroyandtina.php?view=single&ID=4569 Does anyone recognize the "alien" script in the first panel of this cartoon? -- Anton...
Anton Sherwood
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Apr 6, 2007
3:49 am
6801
Hi! ... HAHAHA! But I don't recognise the script. **Henrik...
Henrik Theiling
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Apr 6, 2007
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6802
... Yes. Tibetan syllables are morphemes as every legal syllable in Tibetan has a lexical meaning - and the meaning of longer (mylti-syllable) words is related...
Chris Fynn
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Apr 24, 2007
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6803
... considerable change in orthographic principles? Of course Tibetan is an Indic script. Early in the 20th century an almost identical script was found on ...
Chris Fynn
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-- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@... ... From: Chris Fynn <cfynn@...> To: qalam@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 9:04:37 AM Subject: Re:...
Peter T. Daniels
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Apr 25, 2007
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6805
... There is an alternative, more prosaic explanation for the splitting of onsets. Matisoff ("Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy of...
Richard Wordingham
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Apr 25, 2007
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6806
Came into part of an airing of "The Jerk" on the comedy channel earlier this month and caught one of my favorite scenes since I first saw the film sometime in...
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Apr 30, 2007
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6807
... English! Italics can be used for emphasis. Richard....
Richard Wordingham
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Apr 30, 2007
11:10 pm
6808
Maybe of interest, about Chinese writing: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6669569.stm Cheers P....
Pierpaolo BERNARDI
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May 18, 2007
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On Fri, 18 May 2007 15:41:37 -0300, Pierpaolo BERNARDI ... Yes, interesting! Thank you. [OT:] I'm reminded of the amazing fairly-recently-discovered arrays...
Nicholas Bodley
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May 28, 2007
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6810
AOA, I want to know about complete Urdu character set. Thanks Ijaz Mehrr...
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Jul 17, 2007
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6811
If you are looking for standard? then follow the link http://www.nla.gov.pk/urdu%20letters_files/slide0001.htm (IE recommended). Its a character set defined by...
Atif Gulzar
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Jul 23, 2007
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... Have you tried Omniglot. They have some stuff on it. When you say the 'complete' set what exactly do you mean? Are you talking about the alphabet and the...
Brittanie
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Jul 23, 2007
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The standard Mac Arabic font includes all the characters needed for Persian and Urdu (but not the vowel pointing). A few ligatures are included, but I don't...
Peter T. Daniels
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Jul 23, 2007
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Does anyone have any info on the story behind the upper case hooked B, D, K, and Y consonants (Ɓ, Ɗ, Ƙ, and Ƴ)? At the time of publication of the Africa...
Don Osborn
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Aug 15, 2007
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Phonetic characters don't come in capital and lowercase forms, so when the hooked letters were adopted into the Africa Alphabet, someone decided to make...
Peter T. Daniels
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Aug 15, 2007
5:24 pm
6816
Thanks Peter. What I'm especially interested to know is who designed the upper case letters and how it was decided to do so and pair them with the lower case...
Don Osborn
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Aug 16, 2007
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6817
Until a few weeks ago I could have told you what's in the first edition (1927) of the Africa Alphabet, but I moved the pamphlets from where they always used to...
Peter T. Daniels
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Aug 16, 2007
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... <http://www.thailandguidebook.com/cgi-bin/forum/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=8;t=6929;st=0;r=1> ... The links have been broken by the site's migration. The...
Richard Wordingham
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Aug 18, 2007
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... WOW! Thanks alot for the links! I never knew any of those. Although I knew that some of letters were used in African languages. But I didn't know that much...
Brittanie
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Aug 19, 2007
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Richard, Thanks for the link. I haven't lost interest. Suzanne ... <http://www.thailandguidebook.com/cgi-bin/forum/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=8;t=6929;st=0;r=1> ...
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Aug 20, 2007
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6822
I recently saw a New Testament in the Loma language of Liberia which I believe was typeset in 1971 and it used the Cyrillic style for the uppercase hook b. I...
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Aug 20, 2007
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6823
Only a few minutes ago did I learn this term; it refers to a symbol such as [], perhaps best known as the Catalan centered dot, or (better?) a decimal point,...
Nicholas Bodley
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Sep 4, 2007
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6824
... Several ancient writing systems commonly used dot-shaped word separators. Samaritan writing continues to use them today. Because they use dots to...
Mark E. Shoulson
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Sep 5, 2007
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6825
... What's the "the dominion of Ishmael"? -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/...
Anton Sherwood
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Sep 5, 2007
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6826
"Dominion of Ishmael" refers to Islamic rule. I'm not sure if that means according to the Muslim calendar, counting from the Hijra, or if it's referring to...
Mark E. Shoulson
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Sep 5, 2007
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6827
... [...] Mark, that's a delightful message! Thank you. Best regards, -- Nicholas B o d l e y Waltham, Mass....
Nicholas Bodley
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Sep 5, 2007
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6828
Has anyone heard of the Barati script? The Ethnologue lists it here: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gbl for the Gamit language of India....
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Sep 7, 2007
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6829
Could it be a layperson's attempt to merely say "Bharati," i.e. 'Indian', script? -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@... ... From: "Lorna_Priest@..."...
Peter T. Daniels
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