scripts for today's Aramaic

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        Elaine Keown
        still in Texas

Hi,

I'm forwarding this to answer someone's question
from the main Unicode list, which, wonder of wonders,
is discussing Aramaic.

Peter Kirk discovered that there are probably a couple
other scripts used by today's Aramaic speakers...
Elaine
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scripts of Aramaic, the most polyscriptal language
on Planet Earth---if has *, script is still used
today:

 1. cuneiform (once, will ask cuneiform list about)
 2. Egyptian hieroglyphics
 3. Egyptian hieratic
 4. Egyptian demotic
*5. Alphabetic Semitic "square script" = set called
"Hebrew" in Unicode
*6. Syriac
*7. Arabic (printed liturgical material only,
possibly)
*8. Roman (dialect called Turoyo, in Sweden etc,
20th century script I believe)
*9. Cyrillic (dialect called Aisor, from Caucasian
Georgia)

add Manichaean script and a couple others.--Elaine

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