RE: Ancient Greek (symbols versus letters and duplicate letters)

From: Marco Cimarosti (marco.cimarosti@essetre.it)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 06:15:49 EDT

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    Michael Everson wrote (in http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1938.pdf,
    page 7):

            "The Missing Link [...] An example of this can be seen in Derolez's
    1954 [...] a transitional KOPPA (called COFE here) for 90 (LXXXX), and SAMPI
    (called ENNACOSE here) for 900 (DCCCC). Note that ?? GOTHIC LETTER NINETY
    [...] [is] based on the same graphemic model [...]"

    Another example of this "transitional" koppa glyph is Cyrillic letter "?"
    ("che", U+0427 & U+0447).

    Not surprisingly, the numeric value of "?" is 90, which shows that its
    original position in the alphabet must have been between "?" ("pe", numeric
    value = 80) and "?" ("er", numeric value = 100).

    _ Marco

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