At 18:05 -0500 2003-12-11, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>In my lawyer's waiting room last month, in the order they came to mind:
>
>Roman
Which we call Latin
>Greek
>Cyrillic
>Armenian
>Georgian
Which includes the caseless script Mkhedruli and the casing script
Khutsuri (Asomtavruli + Nuskhuri)
>Chinese
Which we call CJK Ideographs
>Korean
Which we call Hangul
>Japanese
Which isn't a script, though both Katakana and Hiragana are
particularly Japanese, and are used in conjunction with Latin and CJK
Ideographs
>Devanagari
>Oriya
>Bengali
>Gujarati
>Gurmukhi
>Kannada
>Telugu
>Malayalam
>Tamil
>Arabic
>Hebrew
>Syriac
>Divehi
Which we call Thaana, that being the name of the script; Dhivehi is
the name of the language.
>Sinhalese
Which we call Sinhala
>Burmese
Which we call Myanmar, alas.
>Khmer
>Thai
>Lao
>Tibetan
>Mongolian
>Ethiopic
>
>Cherokee
>Cree
Which we call Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and which
includes Athapascan and Inuktitut Syllabics and others.
>Vai
>Pahawh Hmong
>
>(I needed a total of 48 for a project that fell through, so I chose 15
>others as well.)
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>Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...
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