Re: anyone recognise this?

From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 164
Date: 2001-01-22

Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > Wild guess: Ethiopic with a ball-point. I've never seen anyone write
> > Tigrinya or Amharic these days, but that's how they might
> > come out -- it would take sitting down with a chart to see if it's
> > feasible.
> > Contra: no "colon" word-dividers.
>
> Against the contra: Western-style word spacing is also in modern usage (at
> least in Eritrea; not sure for Ethiopia).
>
> My own two-pence guess: Devanagari without the top bar?

I have seen people write Hindi, and they always do add the bar over each
word. Not curly enough for Bengali, and it doesn't look much like any
other of the printed Indian scripts.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...

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