On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:42:51 +0100
Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote:
> I said the opposite: the alphabets, abjads, abugidas and today's full
> syllabaries derive from early simplified syllabaries,...
In the Old World, alphabets and abugidas derive from abjads, which do
not derive from syllabarie
2018-02-16 1:59 GMT+01:00 Richard Wordingham via Unicode <
unicode@unicode.org>:
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 21:49:57 +0100
> Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote:
>
> > The concept of vowels as distinctive letters came later, even the
> > letter A was initially a representation of a glottal stop consonnan
On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 21:49:57 +0100
Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote:
> The concept of vowels as distinctive letters came later, even the
> letter A was initially a representation of a glottal stop consonnant,
> sometimes mute, only written to indicate a word that did not start by
> a consonnant i
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