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

From: Marco Cimarosti
Message: 1576
Date: 2003-08-04

John Cowan wrote:
> The key point here is that the relative positions of certain letters
> encodes something, which is certainly not typical of an alphabet.

Well, for the most typical of alphabets (Latin), some of the most typical
languages witten in it (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian,
Rumanian, German, Dutch, Swedish, et al.) letter <C> has two sounds
depending on its position: it sounds [s], [T], [tS] or [ts] when followed by
<I>, <E> or <Y> and [k] elsewhere...

_ Marco

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