John Cowan wrote:

>
> Lars Marius Garshol scripsit:
>
> > In fact, in my scripts "database"[1] I can find 12 cases of a script
> > changing type when being adapted to a new language, out 114 total
> > cases, as follows:
>
> Also Arabic abjad -> Mongolian alphabet, through some intermediaries.

Not Arabic, but Aramaic, specifically Manichaean.

See my just-published (finally!) article in *Israel Oriental Studies* 20
on Isaac Taylor's prescience -- he said the Inner Asia scripts probably
came from the Manichaeans who migrated in that direction -- decades
before there was any reason to suppose that the Manichaeans had a
distinctive form of script.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...