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Re: Cyrillic for English

From:Roland Hoensch <hoensch@...>
Date:Friday, December 10, 1999, 17:15
True enough.  So why is the latin alphabet not modified for English?

----- Original Message -----
From: Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 1:33 PM
Subject: Re(2): Cyrillic for English


> Ok, but what if cyrillic was being used for Vietnamese? You WOULD have to > modify it somehow to make it show tones, etc. > > Also, any script that is not being used with the language it was meant > for has to be modified somehow. Arabic has been modified to fit languages > that arent even semitic (Such as Urdu). >