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From: lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross)
Subject: Re: Are all alphabets...? (cxu Hangul < Brahmi?)
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 03:15:14 GMT
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Kvankam la specifaj _formoj_ de la ko-  Although the specific _forms_ of the
reaj fonemiloj estas (versxajne) loke   Korean phoneme-signs were (probably)
kreitaj/asignitaj, sxajnas al mi evi-   locally created/assigned, it seems
dente, ke la _formoj de la *silaboj*_   obvious to me that the _forms of the
havas sudazian (nagarian aux pranaga-   *syllables*_ have a South Asian (De-
rian) fonton.  La preciza speco kaj     vanagari or Protonagari) source.  The
grado de la parenceco inter sudaziaj    precise kind and degree of related-
kaj sudokcidentaziaj (>euxropaj, ...    ness between South Asian and South-
> Esperanta) alfabetoj estas polemi-    west Asian (> European, ...) alpha-
kebla esplortemo...                     bets is available for polemic re-
                                        search...
Liland B Ros' <lilandbr@scn.org>        Leland Bryant Ross <lilandbr@scn.org>

In a previous article, deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff) says:

>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.
>
>
>-- 
>	 Daniel "Da" von Brighoff    /\          Dilettanten
>	(deb5@midway.uchicago.edu)  /__\         erhebt Euch
>				   /____\      gegen die Kunst!
>

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