Re: Look what I found!

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Puzzling indeed.  The usual missionary suspects for this area are Dutch
>Reformed or (Dutch) RC-- there was some pre-Dutch contact with Spanish and
>Portuguese, but they didn't hang around for long.  Possible pre-Dutch
>Islamization via either Tidore/Ternate or Southern Celebes
>(Bugis/Makassar)-- in which case you might expect that script--but more
>likely Arabic.  Contacts with Mindanao also very likely, but again Arabic,
>not Syriac.
>The northern tip of Celebes (town: Manado) and environs are among the
>staunchest Christian (Dutch Reformed) areas of Indonesia.
well, i'll say. I'm beginning to wonder if they mixed up the area?  I
would expect either a Latin, or an Arabic script (it's far too angular
IMHO to be a dscendant of Arabic). A very unlikely possibility (i think)
is amybe missionaries thought to use a Syriac style script? :).

But, i'm reaching here ;).
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