Re: Basque & Katzner's Languages of the World

David Peterson scripsit:
> In a message dated 11/18/01 11:56:56 AM, cowan@MERCURY.CCIL.ORG writes:
>
> << The first four letters of the alphabet in Arabic and Amharic respectively
> (except it's "abugida", not "abugadi").  Just like "alphabet" from
> alpha-beta. >>
>
>     The first four letters in the Arabic alphabet are alef, baa, taa, Taa...
Right enough.  I should have said "in numerical order"; aleph = 1, baa = 2,
jim = 3, dal = 4, plus enough vowels to make the result pronounceable.

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