Re: Site about scripts

From: Lars Marius Garshol (larsga@garshol.priv.no)
Date: Wed Oct 10 2001 - 13:34:34 EDT


* Hietaniemi Jarkko
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| You may consider trying to classify the artificial scripts a bit
| more. For example I *think* (I'm a bit rusty on my Elvish) that for
| Tengwar would be either Abjad (like Hebrew), or maybe Featural (like
| Hangul), and Cirth would be Alphabet (like Runic).

* Michael Everson
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| Yes, considering that all scripts are "artifacts".

I agree with this argument, but I am at a loss for a better name for
this category. I could call it "Constructed scripts", of course, but
they are no more constructed than the others, so it does no good.

--Lars M.



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