Re: [hebrew] Re: Ancient Northwest Semitic Script (was Re: why Aramaicnow)

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Dec 29 2003 - 19:10:35 EST

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    At 06:55 -0800 2003-12-29, Peter Kirk wrote:

    >Yes, this is true at least of Azerbaijani, which mapped Cyrillic
    >glyphs to Latin ones one-to-one. But with Serbo-Croat we are talking
    >of two separate communities which prefer to use separate scripts for
    >what is essentially the same language; and with Azerbaijani we are
    >talking of a deliberate decision by a people, or at least its
    >government, to change scripts.

    In Sanhedrin and Mishnaic text deliberate distinction is made between
    Samaritan and Square Hebrew, as will be demonstrated in the Samaritan
    proposal.

    -- 
    Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com
    


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