saqqara wrote:
I'm genuinely interested in why Phoenician should not be regarded as a separate script but have yet to read a reasoned response to earlier posts.
I think the view may be most succinctly expressed in this way:
The numerous and visually varied 22-letter semitic writing systems all represent the same 22 abstract characters.
The Unicode Standard encodes abstract characters.
Ergo, only one set of codepoints is required to encode the 22-letter semitic writing systems.
John Hudson
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