Re: New Script
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> | 
| Date: | Sunday, November 18, 2001, 2:02 | 
Barry Garcia scripsit:
> King Satcang was well versed in the Indic
> system of writing (meaning he had learned the variety of Grantha that was
> used in texts), so he understood the basic principles of a script such as
> that.
BTW, this process is called "stimulus diffusion", and is one of the
main ways that new scripts are created.
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