Re: Abjad: definition

--- Michael Everson <everson@...> wrote:

> At 01:34 +0100 2004-08-06, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
>
> >Then we need a solid definition of what a letter
> >is. And to preempt we will also need solid
> >definitions of what a diacritic is.
>
> Is this really a problem?

It seems to me, and I may be wrong here, that in
Peter's typology Arabic and Hebrew vowels are letters
but in the Unicode typology they are diacritics.

Andrew Dunbar.

> --
> Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * *
> http://www.evertype.com
>

=====
http://linguaphile.sf.net/cgi-bin/translator.pl http://www.abisource.com





___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com