... or for that matter Meroitic" (since, as Bunz has often argued, specialists on ancient languages only ever work in transliteration, so the scholarly market won't use them all that much). ...
That is not true of all ancient scripts. Some, like biblical Hebrew, are still in regular use by specialists as well as non-specialists. And, as Bunz also argues in http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn3/bunz-iuc17pap.pdf, other ancient scripts, while not much used by specialists for their actual discussions, are nevertheless used in quite widely in tutorial materials and in materials prepared for the general public e.g. popular historical science, enyclopedias etc.
So there is a real need for Unicode to encode and standardise these ancient scripts - or at least some of them, based on the other criteria which Bunz explores. Fortunately there is, we have been assured several times, plenty of room for them, and if we want Klingon etc, in the 17 planes.
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