Tex Texin <tex@...> wrote on 08/13/2003 11:38:23 PM:

> I had seen this, but wondered about it because I have been looking at
> Nakanishi's book and in the Scripts of Europe chapter (first one) and it
> remarks about each language being the Latin script plus a couple

characters.

I don't find that restrictive usage of "script" all that helpful -- how is
Latin script then defined?

Here's the definition I've used:

script ? a maximal collection of graphic characters used for written
representation of languages that share common characteristics of
appearance, share a common set of typical behaviours, have a common history
of development, and that would be identified as being related by some
community of users.

By being a maximal collection, it is inclusive -- all the things we
associate with Latin script are (conveniently) part of Latin script.



- Peter


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