Re: grumbles
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 22, 2000, 9:30 |
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At 17:28 20.4.2000 -0700, Barry Garcia wrote:
>CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >That's another instance where the best stuff is still in books. I just
> >found this at Borders the other day:
> >
> >Florian Coulmas
> >The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems
> >© 1996, 1999
> >ISBN 0-631-19446-0 (hbk) -- ISBN 0-631-21481-X (pbk)
I too recommend it, but why are some scripts only scantily illustrated or
not at all? E.g. no table for bdu-med style of Tibetan, just an PRC
newspaper title... Info on various regional varieties of Germanic runes
are also not illustrated, nor are Hungarian runes, and the "Yiddish
alphabet" is just a listing of the basic Hebrew letters -- no Yiddish
digraphs or mention of special mappings like ayin = /e/ or alef = /o/ in sight!
Just now I also discover that there is a reproduction of a page of Javanese
written in Arabic, but no table of the alphabet.
Now, what if we -- the Conlang community -- went ahead and made an online
reference on writing systems, since several of us are writing-systems
nuts? I once had the plan to do one, but it is a huge job for one
person... :-(
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson
mailto:bpj@netg.se
mailto:melroch@my-deja.com
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