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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Are all alphabets co-derivative?
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In article <4pa58f$b89@news-e2c.gnn.com>,
Charles A. Lieberman <CLieberman@gnn.com> wrote:
>
>In article <DsMu6G.676@midway.uchicago.edu> Daniel von Brighoff wrote:
>> Korean Hankul/Han'geul springs 
>>immediately to mind as an alphabet with no definite predecessor
>
>Armenian was invented by a man who's mentioned in Kurt Vonnegut's 
>"Bluebeard" but whose name currently escapes me

Bishop Mesrop.  This a traditional attribution which some dispute.
The Armenian alphabet, although not transparently derived from the
Greek in the way that Cyrillic is is nevertheless heavily influenced
by it.  Georgian is even more distinctive in appearance but I hesitate
to consider either of them "unrelated" to other Western scripts in the
way that Hankul clearly is.


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