suzmccarth wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Michael Everson <everson@...> wrote:
> > At 17:26 +0000 2005-08-21, suzmccarth wrote:
> > >I think Mr. Daniels' comment about the sacred domain for
> Cherokee, by
> > >which I assume he meant native religion not Christianity,
> >
> > No, they use in Christian contexts too.
>
> I guess I didn't make my point clear. What I meant was that the
> native religious use kept the script inventory stable. I am quite
> aware of the Christian use of the script in the Baptist church. I
> have an article somewhere that surveys the remaining Baptist
> churches that still used the script in the 90's.
>
> How does Christianity contribute to script stability? Especially
> when new orthographies and translations are produced to keep the
> Bible contemporary and unambiguous.

Why would Christianity (or anything else) contribute to "script
instability," whatever that might be?
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...