Peter_Constable@... wrote:

>
> John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote on 07/30/2003 03:27:26 PM:
>
> > > > Fraser script: this is not a script, but a Latin-script
> > orthography for Lisu
> > >
> > > wrong
> >
> > Well, then the term "Fraser script" is polysemous, unless you want to say
> > that the glyphs of the Latin capital letters have been recycled into a
> > novel script.
>
> I have been undecided for a while as to whether I'd want to consider
> Fraser an extension of Latin or a new script derived from Latin. I
> currently think I'd be inclined toward the former since there is clearly a
> very close relationship to Latin, there are no new script behaviours, and
> the letters can be considered Latin with some novel forms that are very
> clearly based on existing Latin letters.

By that approach, cyrillic is just an extension of Greek. Fraser uses a
plethora of letters that are not roman, and notates things that are
rarely notated in any script at all.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...