Elaine Keown
Tucson
hi,
>From: Peter Constable ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>Date: Tue May 04 2004 - 09:11:35 CDT
>What are the directional properties of Pheonician? Is
>it RTL only, or
>was it ever written with a different directionality?
One of the minor problems with 'Old Canaanite' scraps
of text is that directionality is not a given---for
certain little scraps, scholars argue over which
directionality makes more sense, RTL or LTR...
But I'm not sure what percent of the corpus has
uncertain directionality....
Elaine
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