Michael Everson wrote:

>
> At 09:18 -0400 2005-08-31, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> >But without _learning to read an alphabet_, people _cannot_ divide a
> >syllable into anything smaller.
>
> I think that any Vai who wants to use a computer will have to learn
> to read an alphabet, and pretending that this is not true is just
> plain silly.

Yet you deny you're a cultural imperialist.

At least by now you seem to be tacitly admitting that the "alphabet"
might be the Arabic one.

> > > >I don't know what "the Ethiopic 'standard' keyboard" may be,
> >>
> >> It is not a formal Ethiopian National Standard specification (yet),
> >> but it is the most common computer keyboard configuration available
> >> on various platforms.
> >
> >So there is no Ethiopic standard keyboard.
>
> There evolved a convergence of practice (i.e. de-facto standard), and
> the Ethiopian Quality and Standards Authority is working on a formal
> national standard (which is based on that practice), as I am informed
> by my colleagues.

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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...