Re: notelangs

In a message dated 1/21/03 7:42:51 AM, jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM writes:

>Danny Wier scripsit:
>
>> I just learned the Armenian alphabet, if anybody cares. :P I always thought
>> it looked like mangled Latin.
>
>That's because Armenian (like, but more than, Cyrillic and Greek) has
>abandoned its typographical tradition in favor of Latin-based type design.
Interesting. I'd love to see what it looked like earlier. I'm trying to learn
this alphabet too, really because I can't find a book about the language that
uses transliterations. It's difficult because all the letters look the same,
and there are apparently different ways of pronouncing many of them depending
on dialect and time period. Which makes some sense of course ... but it's
annoying when every source you look at says something different.

One of these days I'll put Kar Marinam's alphabet up on the web. It's
essentially what you would get if the Armenian and Georgian alphabets had a
baby, and spoiled it.

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