Re: Thagojian Alphabet

Paul Bennett scripsit:

> The position of {u} matches the position of digamma, but it's not
> clear how the glyph (which looks like a roman "S") originated.
I figured this out later last night reading Nick Nicholas's excellent
pages on Unicode and Greek script.  The digamma in its function as a
number got mixed up with stigma, the old sigma-tau ligature, and
you now typically see either stigma or sigma tau as the equivalent of
VI.  This is where Coptic sou comes from.  However, Coptic itself
never used this character as anything but a number, and I doubt
any other Coptic-script language would either.

Coptic is being disunified from Greek in Unicode, BTW.

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