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> At 12:18 -0400 2003-05-22, Edward C. D. Hopkins wrote: > > >But toward being back on topic: it is not clear to me if the roadmap > >includes or rejects Arsacid Parthian/Parthian Aramaic (and other descriptive > >names have been used). Can someone knowledgeable on inclusion of this > >Aramaic variant script in Unicode enlighten me? > > Not without detail. But if it's a variant of Aramaic, it is likely to > have been unified with Aramaic (which has not yet been encoded). What level of detail would you like? I was
unable to find a comprehensive Aramaic proposal but did find UTC #3
(1992-1993), N1932 (1998), N2042 (1999), N2311 (2001) and N2556 (2002).
In other UTC documents, I found Carl-Martin
BUNZ, Encoding Scripts from the Past: Conceptual and Practical Problems and
Solutions. (read at 17th IUC, San Jose, California, September 2000). Bunz
classes Parthian as "Category B1, in need of encoding".
I also recently came across an article in the
Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies that is of interest: The Aramaic Language
and its Classification, by Efrem Yildiz. http://www.jaas.org/edocs/v14n1/e8.pdf
I would like to pursue this to learn what is
needed to encode Parthian Aramaic.
Cheers,
Chris Hopkins
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