In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michael Everson writes: Re: Colourful scripts and Aramaic
This is nearly off topic, but I'd be glad of any clarifications, or references that anybody has. In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michael Everson wrote in response to Peter Kirk, with a clarification I agree with mainly: > People. It [Aramaic] is the widespread offshoot used throughout the > Middle East that spawned Brahmic and Uighur and other scripts. It > isn't necessarily the thing you think is confined to three scraps of > papyrus or whatever. I'd always been under the impression that the Brahmic script family and their offshoots, and the Phoenician script family and their offshoots, developed independently of each other, and although links between the two families had been suggested by some scholars, many other scholars disagreed with this suggestion. Are there some articles which show these links reasonably well, and if so, which family predated the other? Also Uighur script (as in Old Uighur, as in Sogdian) has, as a cursive script, a superficial resemblence to Arabic script (an offshoot from the Phoenician family) and I imagine that links are more easy to show. I've never seen a description of the Sogdian alphabet (i.e. I have never come across one): is there a good article or URL which illustrates such links? Best wishes John -- John Clews, Keytempo Limited (Information Management), 8 Avenue Rd, Harrogate, HG2 7PG Tel: +44 1423 888 432 mobile: +44 7766 711 395 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.keytempo.com
