Re: GSF revisited
From: | andrew <hobbit@...> |
Date: | Monday, May 7, 2007, 5:18 |
On Mon, 07 May 2007, R A Brown wrote:
> 1. ORTHOGRAPHY & PHONOLOGY
> The language uses the Greek alphabet. They are too far removed from
> the Roman world to have ever known the Roman alphabet. Although their
> uppercase letters are the familiar Greek ones, they will have
> developed a different cursive script from the Greeks of the west.
> However, we will for convenience write with the familiar upper and
> lower-case Greek letters.
>
If their conhistory is Central Asian then there is the possibility that
their script would flip so it is written down the page instead of
across it. That would add a challenge for people who design
conscripts, and add grief to the rest of us :)
- andrew.