Re: Interesting Brain/Language Nugget of Info
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 25, 1999, 16:55 |
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On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:33:31 -0400 John Cowan <cowan@...>
writes:
>The other RTL scripts are:
>
> Syriac (basically ecclesiastical use)
> Thaana (used for Divehi, the national language of the
>Maldives)
>
>which are in Unicode 3.0, and
>
> Phoenician (obsolete)
> Avestan (obsolete/ecclesiastical)
> Aramaic (obsolete)
> Tifinagh (for Berber languages)
> Samaritan (obsolete)
>
As far as i know, Samaritan isn't obsolete....i think the few hundred
Shomronim left still use it.
I remember seeing them in the Language Ethnologue.
-Stephen (Steg)
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