Here are the answers of your question

- Adriatique moyen is also called south-picene
- Braille chinois : have you any further informations ?
- Dhives akuru : no, the dhives akuru was replaced by thaana script in 1153
- Euskara : the script is a little different of the latin script
- Marsiliana : perhaps but my document show that some letters used in
Etruscan are missing in Marsiliana
- Tamasheq and Tifinagh are two separated scripts used in differents areas.
- Theban is also called "Les runes d'Honorius" and doesn't seem to be
related with voynich script that was discovered by Wilfrid M. Voynich in
1912 in the villa Mondragone at Frascati in Italia


What "AFAIK" means ?
what "IIRC" means ?

Stéphane

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Marco Cimarosti [mailto:marco.cimarosti@...]
Envoyé : mercredi 21 avril 2004 10:32
À : 'qalam@yahoogroups.com'
Objet : RE: Dates requested for various scripts


Stephane Bertho wrote:

> Does anyone know the date of creation of the following scripts (any
> informations appreciated) :

Gulp! I never heard before the 70% of the 50+ scripts you mention, so I am
afraid that I won't be of much help...

While the American experts are still asleep, I have a couple of notes and
questions:

> Adriatique moyen

What kind of script is this? (It is just one of the many names I never
heard, but it made me curious, as it sounds like it might be from Italy.)

> Braille chinois

There is no single "Chinese braille". I know of at least two brailles used
in China: a Cantonese braille used in Hong Kong blind schools and a Mandarin
braille used in mainland China. I recall that the second one has been
reformed in recent years, which makes at least a third Chinese braille.

> Dhives akuru

Is this the same as Thaana, i.e. the script used in the Maldives islands?

> Euskara

AFAIK, Euskara is the local name of the Basque language, which is written in
Latin script.

> Marsiliana

AFAIK, this is not a script but the name of a small town, Marsiliana
d'Albenga (Grosseto, Italy). In this place archaeologists found a famous
ivory tablet (perhaps a scribe's palette) with the whole *Etruscan* alphabet
inscribed on it.

So, couldn't "Marsiliana" be just an alternate name for the Etruscan script?

> Tamasheq
> Tifinagh

Aren't these two synomims, both referring to the Berbers' script?

> Theban
> Voynich

Are these two really scripts? IIRC, they are both sorts of pseudo-writing
connected with magic.

Marco



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