Kenneth Whistler wrote: > Where I differ from Marco is in the assumption that this is a > logographic script. As Lars stated, and as Orie Endo also says in > her analysis, Nushu is not logographic, but rather a phonologically > based orthography. The analogy in Unicode to look for is the Yi > script [...] Right. I just assumed that *if* it was logographic, 600 characters seemed an implausibly small number, compared to Chinese. But, after Tom Emerson's message, it seems clear that it is a phonetic script. (BTW, can everybody else load <http://www2.ttcn.ne.jp/~orie/>? It doesn't work for me). _ Marco
