Re: IMLD, 2/21/05: Braille & sign languages

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
wrote:

> suzmccarth wrote:
> > I would suppose that a system of reading for the blind would only
> > come about in a civilization in which expectations for mass

literacy

> > already existed, so post-reformation Europe. I would be very
> > interested in hearing if any came about elsewhere.
>
> I don't know of any evidence for blind people reading cuneiform,

but

> there's no reason they couldn't have.

I have been completely unaware of a raised cuneifrom script. How was
it created?

Suzanne