From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 10:48:01 EDT
Patrick Andries wrote:
> And I notice now that Michael actually mentioned this in the proposal
> (sorry for the noise) : ? The twenty-two letters
> in the Phoenician block may be used, with appropriate font changes, to
> express Punic, Neo-Punic,
> Phoenician proper, Late Phoenician cursive, Phoenician papyrus, Siloam
> Hebrew, Hebrew seals,
> Ammonite, Moabite, and Palaeo-Hebrew.?
This suggests to me that much debate could be avoided if the proposed script were to be
renamed, e.g. Old Canaanite as Dean suggests or some other more generic term than
Phoenecian. Apart from being arguably more accurate for a script so widely used -- both
geographically and chronologically --, such a name would make clear to semiticists and
other scholars that some measure of unification is being applied to the encoding of this
field of script styles. This would be reassuring.
John Hudson
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