Re: Just wondering

At 04:27 AM 1/22/2003, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>As Taylor already recognized in 1883, Uyghur is sufficiently dissimilar
>from ("Nestorian") Syriac that it cannot have underlain it -- that's why
>he suggested the script came from the Manichaeans, and "28 months to the
>day after Taylor died," F. W. K. Müller announced the discovery of Man.
>documents, and Liszbarski recognized their script as distinct in 1916
>(IOS 20: 90).

Very interesting. Thank you. I shall seek a copy of your new article.

John Hudson

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