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
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Sep 7, 2007 8:44 pm
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... 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...
Do you agree with the inventor that "humans can only delineate between about 34 unique sounds"? -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@... ... From: Don Osborn...
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Sep 15, 2007 3:07 am
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Not sure what to make of that, Peter. It may be that some research in perception/cognition tells us something about individual human abilities to process and...
Giving him the benefit of the doubt by supposing he only meant "speech sounds," English has (under the usual analysis) 43 phonemes. And that's hardly an...
Peter T. Daniels
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Sep 15, 2007 2:12 pm
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... There's something important about human hearing that was discovered only relatively recently, within the past few decades. Even in the late 19th C., there...
Nicholas, What you describe is called "acoustic phonetics." It goes back at least to Helmholtz, and the Bells (Alexander Melville, Alexander Graham) were...
Peter T. Daniels
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Sep 15, 2007 7:05 pm
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Ahh, nothing like a professional to enlighten a dilettante! Thank you, Peter. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_phonetics> looks like a worthy article; it...
Thanks Peter. You're probably right, but I generally give such proposals some respect, even while being skeptical. The N'Ko movement after all began half a...
Is anyone familiar enough with the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database (UPSID) to know whether that helps with this question? See UPSID-PC and links...
Well, he claims that diacritics are bad. Somali uses a roman alphabet without diacritics. There's nothing wrong with digraphs. -- Peter T. Daniels...
Peter T. Daniels
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Sep 15, 2007 11:08 pm
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Hi Peter, all, Re diacritics, what is the prevailing opinion (if any) among experts in writing systems? Obviously they are common in many languages for ...
In 1930, most "printing" was done with a typewriter. Most typewriters did not have dead keys (French typewriters had a dedicated key for each accented letter.)...
Peter T. Daniels
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Sep 16, 2007 1:51 pm
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... "speech sounds," English has (under the usual analysis) 43 phonemes. And that's hardly an excessively large number. ... attention than any other. But I was...
Hi Peter. Good point. However the context of this particular document is handwriting and "natives," not typing or typesetting. I won't reproduce the text here,...
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