Re: RTL languages

From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 1594
Date: 2003-08-06

Marco Cimarosti wrote:

> - The South Arabian script is extinct, as probably are the languages which
> where written with it: Hadhramautic, Himyaritic, Qatabanic, and Sabaic. I am
> quite confident that Sabaic is extinct.

"Probably"??

The Modern South Arabian languages are not directly descended from the
Old South Arabian languages; they are unwritten, and if anyone should
happen to try to write any of them, they would presumably use Arabic
script.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...

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