At 22:20 -0400 2004-05-03, John Cowan wrote:
Michael Everson scripsit:

Semiticists seem to transliterate Phoenican-script text into Latin or Hebrew, and do not normally use the Phoenician glyphs at all.

Though we don't know to what extent that reflects the inability of conventional printers to cope with Phoenician, plus cultural lag.

It doesn't matter. As a wise friend said recently:

"The scholarly representations are not the *only* representations of such text, and the professional Semiticists are not the only surviving cultural owners of the world's Middle Eastern historical cultural heritage."
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com




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