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Re: Sidestepping Spelling Reform

From:Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Sunday, February 1, 2004, 23:23
On Wednesday, January 28, 2004, at 07:49 PM, Costentin Cornomorus wrote:

> --- Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:
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>> above. It would be possible to >> adapt >> either the Akkadian or the Old Persian system >> to English. But I fail to >> see how >> this would be any improvement on what we now >> have. However, it could be an >> interesting experiment. > > As far as I can tell, Persian cuneiform was > consonant first. There were signs for A, I and U > however, which could be combined with other signs > to make a vowel first syllable.
Yes, you are right. The Old Persian cuneiform script had only CV and V symbols. It was Akkadian system, which was used for many centuries, and for several other languages besides Akkadian that had CV, V and VC symbols, as well as a whole host of 'Sumerograms' which functioned rather like Hanji in modern Japanese. Ray =============================================== http://home.freeuk.com/ray.brown ray.brown@freeuk.com (home) raymond.brown@kingston-college.ac.uk (work) =============================================== "A mind which thinks at its own expense will always interfere with language." J.G. Hamann, 1760

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