RE: New contribution

From: E. Keown (k_isoetc@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu May 06 2004 - 16:16:12 CDT


       Elaine Keown
       Tucson

hi,

>From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
>Date: Tue May 04 2004 - 09:11:35 CDT

>What are the directional properties of Pheonician? Is
>it RTL only, or
>was it ever written with a different directionality?

One of the minor problems with 'Old Canaanite' scraps
of text is that directionality is not a given---for
certain little scraps, scholars argue over which
directionality makes more sense, RTL or LTR...

But I'm not sure what percent of the corpus has
uncertain directionality....

Elaine

        
                
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