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qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Don Osborn" <dzo@...> wrote:
> 2. Of languages traditionally written only in non-Latin scripts, what
> is the degree of standardization of Romanized transcription?
I presume you include transliteration here.
Do the classical languages Greek, Hebrew and Sanskrit count here?
Their transcriptions that could count as traditional writing systems!
There are variants, though. Indeed, the Sanskrit transcription
system supported by Unicode precomposed characters differs from the
ISO 15919 scheme!
Russian transliteration probably offers a straightforward exercise in
quantification.
Thai transcription and transliteration offer a fine example of chaos,
even on road signs, e.g 'Vadhana' v. 'Watthana', even though they have
an official but inadequate system of transcription.
Richard.