On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:37:48 +0100 Michael Everson <ever...@evertype.com> wrote:
> On 10 Jul 2012, at 10:10, Satyakam Phukan wrote: > No, the inheritors of the Roman heritage are Aragonese, Aromanian, > Arpitan, Asturian, Catalan Corsican, Emiliano-Romagnolo, French, > Friulan, Galician, Italian, Jèrriais, Ladino, Leonese, Lombard, > Mirandese, Neapolitan, Occitan, Picard, Piedmontese, Portuguese, > Romanian, Romansh, Sardinian, Sicilian, Spanish, Venetian, and > Walloon. And various French-, Portuguese-, and Spanish-based creoles. To extend the list, the Irish, Scots, English, Scandinavians and Poles picked up the Roman heritage without the assistance of being physically conquered. And the Romanians re-established it as an expression of non-Slavness. > > How will it be if the Latin script is called the English script as > > is called so, by many ignorant people in the third world countries. > It's fine. Its just fine. We already call it "Latin". And we, the > English speakers, who are in the minority compared to the Romance > speakers, do not consider this to be in any way problematic or > "controversial". You typographers may be happy to call it the 'Latin script', but to most of us it is still the '*Roman* alphabet'. Richard.
