Hey y'all Happy new year! Did y'all know that some ppl claim that the Phaistos disk is a forgery? Just reading andrew robinson's "lost languages". maybe a tad...
Hello! *Qalam* is Arabic for *pen*!! Arabic *qalam* > Greek *kalámos* > Latin *calamus* (Arabic uvular /q/ became velar /k/ in both Greek and Latin [despite...
... oh it's originally an arabic word then? i don't think it exists in modern romance lang. tho? there's no /q/ in greek and latin, after all shukran bsaf niqi...
From: <eysiz@...> ... It exists at least in Italian (calamo), French (calame), Spanish (calamo), and Portuguese (cálamo). In Italian, more common than...
Ar 5 Jan 2003 ag 23:53 scríobh nicky eysiz@... ... Your girlfriend is correct...mostly. Actually the 'ai' sound varies between /a:/ and /æ:/ in...
Sean O Seaghdha
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Jan 6, 2003 5:15 am
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... If you study the language, you'll learn its orthography. You can find a historical discussion of how it works in *The World's Writings Systems*. -- Peter...
Isn't the second vowel letter (i in ai, o in ao) used to indicate roundness (or was it backness?)? E.g. Dun Laoghaire is currently (or was in 1979) pronounced...
... Thanks to all those (including Nicky h..self) who already explained that "qalam" is the Arabic for "pen". Actually, when I started this mailing list, I...
Sorry for this small OT. Anyone wishing to contribute a translation to the next I-can-eat-glass-like project? "Te tengo conmigo siempre... con tu nombre en mil...
Marco Cimarosti
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Jan 8, 2003 12:36 pm
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Haarmann claims it's influenced by the Greek alphabet. Is that view accepted by other scholars? nicky...
... matter if ... well, he writes that since people have found a Greek alphabet in the vicinity of the Meroitic alphabet and since the Meroitic alphabet has...
... Since those are far from irrefutable arguments, you are under no obligation to believe him. But this is far from the strangest thing he has to say about...
... he ... I agree. Thanks. (ha ha! quite funny really, "far from the strangest thing he has to say about barely readable scripts", but true, of c.) nicky...
... Quote his text or give the page number and reference please. "Vicinity" is no kind of irrefutable evidence however. -- Michael Everson * * Everson...
Haarmann, Harald. 1991. Universalgeschichte der Schrift. Frankfurt/Main and NY: Campus. pp. 389-393. to be honest (my bad) he mentions different Greek ...
I've never read anything in print about the CELTIBERIAN script - in books, it's always just IBERIAN. (eg, Haarmann, Bernal etc.) Is the Celtiberian script a...
... Do you have access to *The World's Writing Systems*? Swiggers lays out the profusion and confusion of names for the various scripts and their languages...
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