Re: Origin of Alphasyllabaries (was: Why so much emoji nonsense?)

2018-02-16 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:42:51 +0100 Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote: > I said the opposite: the alphabets, abjads, abugidas and today's full > syllabaries derive from early simplified syllabaries,... In the Old World, alphabets and abugidas derive from abjads, which do not derive from syllabarie

Re: Origin of Alphasyllabaries (was: Why so much emoji nonsense?)

2018-02-16 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
2018-02-16 1:59 GMT+01:00 Richard Wordingham via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org>: > On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 21:49:57 +0100 > Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote: > > > The concept of vowels as distinctive letters came later, even the > > letter A was initially a representation of a glottal stop consonnan

Origin of Alphasyllabaries (was: Why so much emoji nonsense?)

2018-02-15 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 21:49:57 +0100 Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote: > The concept of vowels as distinctive letters came later, even the > letter A was initially a representation of a glottal stop consonnant, > sometimes mute, only written to indicate a word that did not start by > a consonnant i