Re: Lars Marius's "undecided" scripts (was: bidi scripts and langua

From: Lars Marius Garshol
Message: 1548
Date: 2003-08-01

* Michael Everson
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| Pollard seems alphabetic to me.

* Peter T. Daniels
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| Only if Modern Aramaic (Nestorian) is called an alphabet pure and
| simple; the tone thing might cast it into another type entirely

What do you mean by this? That if we ignore how tones are written the
script is an alphabet, but if we do consider the tones it has to be
considered to belong to some other type? Or something else entirely?

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