Re: Abjad: definition

Andrew Dunbar wrote:

>
> --- 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.

They're not diacritics, because they add rather than lightly modify, but
why does that make them letters? They're vowel points!
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...