Re: +AFs-CONLANG+AF0- Vowel romanization

Tristan McLeay wrote:

>On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Ray Brown wrote:
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>>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.
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>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)
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Indeed.  Don't forget Japanese - though, obviously, they don't use them
as capital and lower case, they still have a dual(or even trial,
counting kanji) writing system.

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