From: Peter_Constable@...
Message: 564
Date: 2001-11-12
>> 23 Modern syriac,Syriac and Thaana are not the same.
>> 37 Thaana,
>Doubtful: 23 and 37 (both the same; would Bill call them
>alphasyllabaries?)
>> | Has anyone tried to create a classification of scripts?Because some people are interested in doing so since, to them, it seems
>>
>> * Peter T. Daniels
>> |
>> | As I said, it would be trivial. (Historically speaking.) Every
>> | history of writing from Taylor's on contains a classification or
>> | historical pedigree/dendrogram.
>>
>> Well, to me those are completely different things. Are there any
>> classifications of scripts that are not historically based, but only
>> based on the properties of the scripts?
>
>I doubt it. Why bother?
>But -- what's the point of all this "classifying"?Why has anyone ever classified anything? To gain a better understanding of