Re: Anth Assignment Conorthography

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 21:16:03 -0400, Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
wrote:

<...>
> the people who were developing it decided
>that alphabetics would fit their language much better (and let them write
>names).
As for writing names: a system for phonemically precise transcription
based on a Chinese-like script is in fact not so difficult.

For example, it could imitate fanqie (something like 'street' + 'dike'
= 'strike').

BTW, the post-Yin Old Chinese script seems to be 'more phonetical' than
what it developed into later on. It appears that only minor additions
were needed to make it suitable for transcribing foreign names
phonemically.


Basilius