Re: Orkhon alphabet

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Gianni Vacca <xiongyaliren@...> wrote:

> Hello
>
> Omniglot (http://www.omniglot.com/), which I found
> accurate until today, writes the following at the
> bottom of its Orkhon alphabet page
> (http://www.omniglot.com/writing/orkhon.htm):
>
> "Used to write Uyghur or Uighur, a Turkic language
> spoken in China, particularly in Xinjiang Uyghur
> Autonomous Region, by about 6,750,000 people"
>
> Now, as far as I know Uighur is written in a modified
> Arabic alphabet. Do some nationalist Uighurs still use
> Orkhon?

Quite probably :) The head of our computer services group used to
write notes on his whiteboard in English runes. Ogham is reportedly
alive and well in Ireland.

Omniglot does give a more detailed picture at
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/uyghur.htm .