suzmccarth wrote:

>
> I think Mr. Daniels' comment about the sacred domain for Cherokee, by
> which I assume he meant native religion not Christianity, is relevant
> here. In general, as the script undergoes domain shift from home to
> school or church there can be a shift in the phonemicity(?) of the
> script.

No, it's used in Christian worship. (See WWS.) Does any pre-Christian
religion survive in Oklahoma?

> The script is altered in most cases, but not in every case, so it is
> interesting to examine whether there are patterns across scripts and
> whether this shift both in domain and in script characteristics is
> influenced mainly by native speaker needs or external influences.
>
> I have been a student of script standardization processes for a long
> time but now see how Unicode is a significant player in script
> standardization.

And we see from the attitudes expressed here that they don't give a damn
about "native" sensibilities.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...