Marco Cimarosti wrote:

>
> Cowan wrote:
> > Peter T. Daniels scripsit:
> >
> > > Just the other day I had occasion to draw up a list of (1), and the
> > > total is ca. 32 (depending where you draw the line).
> >
> > The Roadmap makes it 52: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian,
> > Hebrew, Arabic, Thaana, N'Ko, Tifinagh, Devanagari, Bengali,
> > Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam,
> > Sinhala, Thai, Lao, Tibetan, Myanmar, Georgian, Hangul,
> > Ethiopic, Cherokee, Canadian Syllabics, Hanunoo, Buhid,
> > Tagbanwa, Khmer, Mongolian, Cham, Limbu, Tai Le, Tai Lue,
> > Buginese, Batak, Lepcha, Kayah Li, Ol Chiki, Han ideographs,
> > Hiragana, Katakana, Bopomofo, Yi, Syloti Nagri, Varang Kshiti,
> > Sorang Sompeng, Pahawh Hmong, Vai.
>
> Part of this discrepancy may be due to different perspectives, i.e.
> different reasons for counting. E.g., it doesn't make sense to consider
> katakana and hiragana as two separate "scripts", apart the fact that they
> are encoded in two different "blocks" in Unicode.
>
> But the biggest reason for the difference is probably where you draw the
> line between what is "used today" and what isn't, or different information
> about the current status of some scripts.
>
> Peter Daniels, could you please give the list of your 32 scripts, so we can
> see the 20 scripts which make the difference?

In my lawyer's waiting room last month, in the order they came to mind:

Roman
Greek
Cyrillic
Armenian
Georgian
Chinese
Korean
Japanese
Devanagari
Oriya
Bengali
Gujarati
Gurmukhi
Kannada
Telugu
Malayalam
Tamil
Arabic
Hebrew
Syriac
Divehi
Sinhalese
Burmese
Khmer
Thai
Lao
Tibetan
Mongolian
Ethiopic

Cherokee
Cree
Vai
Pahawh Hmong

(I needed a total of 48 for a project that fell through, so I chose 15
others as well.)
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...