So what about Chinese, Japanese and Korean? Was it wrong to unify them? Jony
> -----Original Message----- > From: Philippe Verdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 11:40 PM > To: Jony Rosenne > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [hebrew] Re: Aramaic unification and > information retrieval > > Jony Rosenne wrote: > > Michael Everson > > > Samaritan and Phoenician are not font variants of Hebrew/Square > > > Hebrew/Jewish or whatever else you want to call it. > > > > But Square Hebrew IS a font variant of Ancient Hebrew or > Phoenician or > > Canaanite, whatever you want to call it, and so is Samaritan. > > Do not mix script families (or genetic history) with their actual use. > Each time a script has evolved in a parallel way for other languages, > it has introduced its own distinctive features. > > With your argument, we would have to unify the Latin, Greek and > Cyrillic scripts, because they have the same origin. Now move onto > their common Phenician origin and we have to unify it with Semitic > scripts... What disunified them was the writing direction, which was > not fixed in early scripts that allowed boustrophedon ordering, > and that had simpler designs with more independant glyphs, and the > way the various glyphs combine to create sometimes new letters. > > For me two scripts that are different enough so that a text written > in one script will have imprecise matches in another, and will be > hardly recognizable by readers is a candidate to a separate encoding, > because it starts its own family of supplementary letters specific > to some families of languages needing these extensions. > > Some of these extensions do not have equivalent in the origin > script, and sometimes (often?) their usage start to split with > distinct semantics (see for example the various forms of > the so-called "Tamazigh" script which is certainly better > represented as a family of scripts rather than a single script, > with as much differences between them than between Greek and > Cyrillic). > > > __________________________________________________________________ > << ella for Spam Control >> has removed Spam messages and set > aside Newsletters for me > You can use it too - and it's FREE! http://www.ellaforspam.com
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