Re: Aramaic, Samaritan, Phoenician

From: Karljürgen Feuerherm (cuneiform@rogers.com)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 08:42:42 EDT

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     Michael Everson said:
    >My native script isn't Hebrew but I am certain
    > that no one who was could easily read a newspaper article written in
    > Phoenician or Samaritan letters.

    Surely that is not an argument for encoding a separate script, is it? Most
    German people I know can't read the German cursive script used say 50 years
    ago. But the characters clearly correspond to the Latin characters in use
    today.

    K



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