From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 18
Date: 2000-08-31
> E.g., I remember that, around the 1970's, the Irish script wasThe Irish alphabet developed gradually and "naturally" out of the
> considered an alphabet on its own, while today it is mostly
> considered a variant of the Latin alphabet (like, e.g., Italic). How
> did this happen? Or, on the other hand, I think that Cyrillic has
> been considered a variant of Greek for a long while. When did it
> start to be seen as an independent alphabet?
> To paraphrase Weinrich, perhaps a graphic variant becomes an alphabet--
> when it starts to be used by the army?