From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Dec 24 2003 - 17:17:19 EST
At 14:08 -0800 2003-12-24, Elaine Keown wrote:
> > There is zero chance that Phoenician will be
>> considered to be a glyph variant of Hebrew.
>
>Many, many Semitists would be truly astonished to read this sentence.
They will need to get over it. Many, many other people will want
Phoenician encoded as a script whether or not Semiticists choose to
use it. It is a cultural matter, not just a matter of comparative
Semitics.
Again, Germanicists may prefer Latin to Gothic, and Indo-Europeanists
may prefer Latin to Kharoshthi or Devanagari, yet we encode all.
>Samaritan Bibles have fascinating marks that indicate the emotion or
>dramatic interpretation to use in reading each verse.....pretty
>nifty!
Can you please send bibliographical references and/or samples to me
or to Debbie or both?
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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