At 08:11 -0500 2001-11-09, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>Peter_Constable@... wrote:
>>
>> >* Peter T. Daniels
>> >|
>> >| There's only one alphabet.
>>
>> I forgot to respond to this earlier: Only one? Cyrillic and Latin and
>> Greek and Armenian and Georgian are all the same script?
>
>Of course. See any history of THE alphabet.
>
>(I mean, obviously, it was only invented once.)

Putting it less subtly:

*The* alphabet was invented once. It has many descendants, which are
scripts. Most of these are still alphabetic, and some have evolved to
have other properties.

Hm. Waitaminnit. The Koreans invented an alphabet independently....
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