Re: Latin mxedruli, or do we really need capital and small letters?

Quoting "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>:

> John Cowan slapronten:
> > Ray Brown scripsit:
> > > > >On the other hand, I have seen Greek texts printed with just a single
> > > > >form
> > >
> > > I meant to finish the sentence thus: "...which is similar to our
> > > lower-case c."
> >
> > That's the lunate sigma.  It was commonly used in Byzantine days, and
> > is still used when transcribing Byzantine manuscripts.
>
> My understanding is that it's very, very old, as well.  Supposedly,
> the Latin <S> derives from a lunate sigma with a small tail.
The version of final sigma I'm used to seeing looks like a Latin 's', except
that the upper curl is bigger than the lower one, and that the lower one extends
below the base line. I had always assumed it was the origin of Latin 's' ...

                                                          Andreas

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