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From: alan@dragon.acadiau.ca (Alan McKay)
Subject: Re: Greek alphabet for other languages
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alan@dragon.acadiau.ca (Alan McKay) writes:

>macrakis@osf.org (Stavros Macrakis) writes:

>>German hand called Gothic or Fraktur), Glagolitic, and Latin are
>>derived from Greek.  

>Excuse me, but I think you are wrong with "Glagolitic".  Isn't
>that the alphabet that Cyrill devised before he made up the current
>Cyrillic alphabet?  If so, it is *not* based on the Greek alphabet
>in any way whatsoever.  It was Cyril's (or whatever the hell his
>name is in English) next alphabet - Cyrillic - that was based on
>Greek.

>Am I not correct?

I looked it up later in my book, and I am correct.  Glagolitic
has nothing whatsoever to do with the Greek alphabet.  If the original
poster would like, I could fax him some texts.

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