Re: Abjad and Alphabet: definition

At 17:22 -0400 2004-08-05, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>(Why are the Arabic letter names given in some colloquial? "beh" is
>impossible in Standard Arabic; the name is baa'.)

The spellings of the characters as named in the
Unicode Standard are given for the convenience of
its users.

> > The term "alphabet" is derived from the first two letters of the
>> Phoenician script (ALF, BET).
>
>No it isn't; it's from the first two letters of the Greek script.

I can live with that and accept the change.

>(And the Phoenician would be ALP.)

The Phoenician names under ballot for inclusion
in the Unicode Standard are those reconstructed
by Theodor Nöldeke in 1904, as given in Powell
1996. See
http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2746.pdf
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