On 28/04/2004 12:15, Peter Constable wrote:
I can't see anything in Phoenician (apart from the numbers) which distinguishes it structurally from a subset of Hebrew. In fact that subset is exactly the unpointed Hebrew subset used by most modern Hebrew users. The best argument that Michael has is that Phoenician glyphs look very different from Hebrew glyphs. But the variation of some Latin and Cyrillic letters can be just as great. For that matter, modern cursive Hebrew is almost as far from reference glyph Hebrew as Phoenician is (and quite illegible to me!), but no one has proposed encoding it separately....
Unless there are behaviours in Phoenician that distinguish it from Hebrew.
Perhaps the Hebrew list is the best place to discuss the distinction between Hebrew and Phoenician.
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