Re: Coptic/Cyrillic

>From: John Cowan <cowan@...>
>Vasiliy Chernov scripsit:
>
> > Yes, the Coptic script (or at least the pieces I've seen) looks very
> > similar to early forms of Cyrillics. In fact, both are nearly identical
> > with certain medieval forms of the Greek script; besides, they use
> > like letters for /S/ (probably inspired by Aramaic).
>
>There is a neat
>demonstration of this at http://www.egt.ie/standards/cy/coptic.html .
>I think the author should have compared *capital* Greek letters, though,
>since Coptic and Cyrillic forms are based on the capitals rather
>than the much more recent small forms of Greek letters.
>
>"UCS" stands for Universal Character Set, essentially a synonym for
>"Unicode".
Incidentally, that URL I posted to the unicode.org site is Greek with Coptic
additions -- the first text example.  But Unicode 3.0 might be adding the
true Coptic character set, which is a unified case (as the second text
example).  That might be a plane variant of Greek, like Fraktur and Gaeilge
would be of Latin, so it might not have its own allocation area.

My goal is to merge the three Greek-based alphabets into one, inshallah...

Danny
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