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Re: +AFs-CONLANG+AF0- Vowel romanization

From:Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>
Date:Sunday, February 22, 2004, 11:29
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Ray Brown wrote:

> In fact, the dual alphabet system is an odd aberration, found only, I > believe, in the modern Roman, Greek & Cyrillic systems. Older alphabets > knew of no such system and, till the present day, the Hebrew & Arabic > alphabets have no such dual systems, nor do the abugidas of India & > Ethiopia, nor the Korean hangul alphabet nor, AFAIK any other alphabet, > abjad or abugida.
doesn't or didn't the georgian alphabet do it? (i know there are three, and I thought two are or were used together as uppercase and lowercase, no doubt influenced by the roman alphabet?) (AND HOW DID THE ROMANS SHOVT IN TEXT IF THIS IS NORMAL? :) (j/k) -- Tristan.

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