Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > Peter_Constable@... wrote:
> > >
> > > >* Peter T. Daniels
> > > >|
> > > >| There's only one alphabet.
> > >
> > > I forgot to respond to this earlier: Only one? Cyrillic and
> > Latin and
> > > Greek and Armenian and Georgian are all the same script?
> >
> > Of course. See any history of THE alphabet.
> >
> > (I mean, obviously, it was only invented once.)
>
> Mumble...
>
> What do you mean by "inventing the alphabet"? If you are talking about the
> Semitic "alphabet", then this may be true, but it defeats the abjad vs.
> alphabet classification. I mean: when the alphabet was invented, it was not
> an alphabet...

No, the only Semitic alphabet is Maltese (not even Mandaic). But of
course the abjad was only invented once, too.

> On the other hand, if you mean the time when the Greeks reassigned some
> letters to the vowels, then this clashes against the fact that the same
> process has been run over again by the Hebrew script, when it has been
> adapted to Yiddish.

How is that an invention? All they did was use Hebrew letters as their
neighbors used Roman ones.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...