Michael Everson wrote:

> At 08:53 -0400 2004-05-27, John Cowan wrote:
> >Does the line of scripts leading to Mongolian and Manchu,
> which descend
> >from an abjad but which have become fully alphabetic, constitute an
> >independent invention of the alphabetic principle, or was stimulus
> >diffusion from Greek operating?
>
> Was there Greek stimulus in Mongolia and Manchuria?

I guess John is talking about the Christian (and later Buddhist) circles in
central Asia (Afghanistan, Bactriana), where it was developed the script
which later began Manchu/Mongolian.

_ Marco