On 07/07/2003 11:01, John Cowan wrote:
Well, that's true up to a point, but only up to a point. Tomorrow someone
may conceive a need to express Tibetan using Hebrew vowel points instead of
Tibetan vowel signs, whilst keeping the Tibetan consonants, but he
should not complain if neither rendering nor syllabication works properly.
As UTR #11 says on a related point, there simply is no traditional Japanese
way of typesetting Devanagari.
But there are traditional American, British, German etc ways of
typesetting Hebrew. Also a surprising number of languages have been
written in Hebrew script at various times. Elaine Keown had a site
listing them, but it seems to be down at the moment. Given the large
number of minority groups now in Israel, the number of such languages
might still increase. Hopefully they would use the Hebrew script
sensibly, but I would hate to have to design a Hebrew script orthography
for a NE Caucasian language with a huge number of vowels. Fortunately I
don't think there is any Jewish community which speaks such a language.
There are Judeo-Georgians (thoroughly European whether in Georgia or in
Israel) who may want to use Hebrew script, but Georgian has a
multiplicity of consonants rather than of vowels.
--
Peter Kirk
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