Re: NATLANGS: What's that writing system?

The pink bits are Japanese - not kanji/hanzi, but mixed Hiragana and
Katakana.  As for the white glyphs . . . are you sure that's not
Ge'ez?  It sure looks like it to me.  The first glyph is clearly a CHA
(U+1328 = ጨ); the second I'm not sure about because the font is not
one I"m used to, but I'm guessing it's a WE (U+12CD = ው), although the
vertical bar doesn't descend below the circle in the WE glyphs I'm
familiar with.

On 7/7/06, Shreyas Sampat <ssampat@...> wrote:
> So, I've been watching these video clips of this show, "The Ito Family's
> Dinner Table", and I've been rather puzzled by this one clip in particular.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I29q_y8noxw
>
> This woman holds up a tray of salt and (evidently; I don't know
> Japanese) says that it's called /tSao/ or possibly /tSaw/ in [some
> language that is not Japanese] before she goes on to identify it as
> salt. There's some mysterious foreign language subtitle there which I
> absolutely cannot identify; does anyone recognise it? It's clearly not
> hanzi and doesn't appear to be Ge'ez or anything else on Omniglot...
>
> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v520/fourwillows/chao.jpg
>
> --
> Shreyas
>

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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