E. Keown wrote:
Last year an SIL script expert told me that 50-60% of the world's languages are *still* unwritten (that's 3600-4200 unwritten languages). SIL hopes to build writing systems for everything by 2020....
And the phonetics people say that the world's
languages contain 1200 different sounds---900
different consonants, 300 different vowels.
I think that implies that Unicode Latin will be different *every* year between now and 2020....
I doubt whether there is a need to distinguish between 900 different consonants and 300 different vowels in everyday writing. For the most part I expect that any, as yet unwritten, language that adopts the Roman script will use combinations of existing Latin letters and combining diacritics.
Anyway no more composite Latin characters will get encoded so there are unlikely to be many additions to Latin script in Unicode.
- Chris
