Re: A script puzzle

Hallo!

On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 16:11:01 -0500, Alex Fink wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:05:57 +0100, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
> wrote:
> [...]
>
> >It reminds me a bit of Maimieux's Pasigraphie, (which doesn't
> >use digits, but a small set of basic symbols that look more
> >like digits than letters, with diacritics), from the overall
> >visual appearance, but that isn't quite the thing, I guess.
>
> I can't google up much good information about Maimieux's pasigraphie.
> What's it like?
It is a written-only taxonomic language using twelve basic glyphs.
These glyphs have fairly simple shapes; I don't remember all of
them, but one looks like a "7", another like a "3".  These glyphs
could also be used as diacritics.

> >Hmmmm - lots of diacritics including lots of superscript circles,
> >and written right to left?  That sounds a lot like Arabic, but
> >your script doesn't resemble that much.
>
> Not Arabic, no, but you're within striking distance: the script in question,
> and those features in particular, were definitely formed under Arabic
> influence.
Could be Thaana, a script formerly used for Divehi (Maldivian):

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/thaana.htm

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