Michael Everson wrote:

>
> At 12:04 -0500 2001-11-09, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> But the Yiddish used the Hebrew abjad as an alphabet.

Not by inventing the alphabet all over again!
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...