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...
... 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...
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
grammatim@...
Jul 23, 2007 9:53 pm
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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...
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
grammatim@...
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...
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
grammatim@...
Aug 16, 2007 1:37 pm
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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...
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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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...
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,...
... Several ancient writing systems commonly used dot-shaped word separators. Samaritan writing continues to use them today. Because they use dots to...
"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...
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....
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
grammatim@...
Sep 7, 2007 8:44 pm
6830
... Possibly. I'm assuming it's wrong but was hoping someone on the list might actually know what script is used. If it just means "Indian" it's too generic...
Hello, A bit of Googling turned up some sort of missionary site which contained the following: "The Auxiliary have longed to provide the Gamit people with some...
No never heard of it before. I would like to see what the script looks like so could you send an image to me via email or post it in the photos section of the...
... I don't know. That's why I was asking. If I saw a sample I could probably figure out what the script actually was. All I know is what the Ethnologue page...
Hi Peter, A belated follow up here. If you find the '27 text I'd be very interested in what it says, and even more, in seeing it. My understanding is that the...
Hi Brittanie, At some point I still think we need a database interface for information on orthographies in Africa - unfortunately much of the information is in...
I think I've written before that Africa is a continent of many new alphabets. One I just recently learned of on the Yoruba language & ICT board* is called...
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