Aramaic scripts

2003-08-14 Thread Raymond Mercier
There are omissions in Michael Everson's chart in http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2311.pdf The chart was based on Semitic languages, although purporting to be about scripts. After all Greek and Latin also derive from the same family of scripts, as we all learn from page 1 of

Re: Aramaic scripts

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Raymond Mercier wrote: There are less obvious omissions: 1. Kharoshthi, a RtoL script much used in North West India, and regarded by everyone as a derivative from a form of the Aramaic script used in that region. ... And to add to Michael's reply, the historical status of Kharoshthi as a

Re: Aramaic scripts

2003-08-10 Thread Michael Everson
At 09:00 +0100 2003-08-09, Raymond Mercier wrote: There are omissions in Michael Everson's chart in http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2311.pdf The chart was based on Semitic languages, although purporting to be about scripts. No, it wasn't. There are less obvious omissions: 1.