Re: The great Michael Everson (was: Reformed Latin-script writing...)

On Thu, 4 May 2000, Daniel A. Wier wrote:

>
> By the way, I read that the Burushaski language (an isolate spoken by a
> small community way up in the Indian-Pakistani Himalayan country) has no
> established script.  Is that true, and could this be an opportunity for
> me (and anyone else who wants to help) to devise a script for them?  I
> just need to know the phonology and common affixes, phonemic sequential
> rules, even a basic vocabulary, and whatever else would be the most
> helpful in working out a writing system...
>
If you're going to do something with Burushashki it might be a good
idea to contact Richard Patry and Etienne Tiffou, who are the leading
linguists working on that language. I believe the latters email
address to be  tiffoue@MAGELLAN.UMontreal.CA, but I haven't checked
it.

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.valdyas.org