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

From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 4225
Date: 2005-02-21

suzmccarth wrote:
>
> --- 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?

It's not. It's depressed. Why would that make a difference?
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...

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