Re: Aramaic, Samaritan, Phoenician

From: Curtis Clark (jcclark@mockfont.com)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 00:05:42 EDT

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    Michael Everson wrote:
    >> So is there a real justification for separate alphabets here?
    >
    >
    > To my mind, yes.

    It's worth noting that Aramaic can also be written in the (encoded)
    Syraic script, and my superficial googling suggests that at least one
    currently-used form of Syraic dates back over two millenia. 

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