> There is zero chance that Phoenician will beconsidered to be a glyph variant of Hebrew.
Many, many Semitists would be truly astonished to read this sentence.
They will need to get over it. Many, many other people will want Phoenician encoded as a script whether or not Semiticists choose to use it. It is a cultural matter, not just a matter of comparative Semitics.
Again, Germanicists may prefer Latin to Gothic, and Indo-Europeanists may prefer Latin to Kharoshthi or Devanagari, yet we encode all.
Samaritan Bibles have fascinating marks that indicate the emotion or dramatic interpretation to use in reading each verse.....pretty nifty!
Can you please send bibliographical references and/or samples to me or to Debbie or both?
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
