Re: Additional Letters for Enlish
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 11, 1999, 11:24 |
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abrigon wrote:
> Anyone ever seen Gothic (not the calligraphy style, or the architecture
> or horror type or modern sub-culture) the people who invaded Europe
> c.250ad and took over much of the Western Empire c.350ad..
>
> They had an alphabet based on Greek, I bet a number of their characters
> could be used for English, same lingo family and all?
Well, whether or not two languages are in the same family has
little to do with whether the script one uses would be appropriate
in describing the phonemic behavior one sees in the other. That
should be a judgement based on the phonologies of the languages
in question.
(After all, Armenian is in the same language family as English --
both Indo-European -- and yet I suspect the Latin alphabet
would be a poor substitute for the Armenian written language,
considering Armenian's glottalic consonants have no correlate
anywhere in English phonology)
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