Re: USAGE: An example of script adaptation to large phonologies

On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 06:40:33PM -0500, Danny Wier wrote:
> You need Adobe Acrobat Viewer to read this:
>
> http://anubis.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n1962.pdf
>
> It's about the Georgian alphabet. But it also discusses the archaic
> upper- and lowercase character set (so Georgian is practically a
> three-case alphabet!), and usage for North Caucasian languages. The
> latter is what interested me: it uses extra letters, diacritcs and even
> an inverted "g" for one phoneme.
>
> Might spark a few ideas for orthography in any script...
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Hmm. I could've used a few extra symbols in my orthography and get rid of
those ugly capital letters I use for the aspirate stops... but I chose to
keep within the limits of 7-bit ASCII. What we *really* need is Unicode
to be more widely adopted, such as in email systems.


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