Re: New cyriliic orthography for WT6b

On 19 Jan 00, at 16:12, John Cowan wrote:

> Paul Bennett wrote:
>
> > Well I never.  I hadn't any idea about devanagari, that's kinda good to
> > know.
> Whenever someone sees fit to write down a " new language" in India,
> at least in the North, Devanagari seems to be the script of choice.
> To be sure, India is pretty hopeless ground for knowing what is a
> language and what is a dialect:  "the local languages change every 150 km"
> is the rule.
> > Can anyone show me an example?  I'm toying with making a devanagari-derived
> > script, and I'm not sure which directions to go in, as most variations
> > I've seen have been for languages with a substantially Sanskrit
> > phonology.
> Indeed.  The Unicode book mentions Awadhi, Bagheli, Bhatneri, Bhili, Bihari,
> Braj Bhasha, Chhattisgharhi, Garhwali, Gondi (Betul, Chhindwara, and Mandla
> dialects), Harauti, Hindi, Ho, Japuri, Kachchhi, Kanauji, Konkani, Kului,
> Kumaoni, Kurku, Kurukh, Marathi, Marwari, Mundari, Newari, Nepali, Palpa,
> and Santali.
> This list, which is not complete, might conceivably be beaten by Hebrew
> script if all the extinct Judeo-X languages were included.
My mistake.  My original post was about natscripts used to write conlangs,
(due to my Cyrillicization (rather than Romanisation) of the rudiments of
one of my new conlangs) which is what I thought you'd meant when you
replied about arabic and devanagari.  That's more where my interest lies at
the moment.

> > I was working from paper copies of the
> > various cyrillic alphabets, and mustn't've got as good an idea as if I'd
> > studied the whole character set as a whole.
>
> I presume you are looking at charts.unicode.org now, or at the Unicode
> book?  They both give a conspectus of the Cyrillic alphabet on one page.
Yes.  I'd used Daniels & Bright to determine the characters to be used, and
then gone to the website to get the encodings for them.  My research within
Daniels & Bright may have been slightly sloppy.

My bad, throughout.

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Pb