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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.