Re: Vowel romanization

At 18:42 22.2.2004, Muke Tever wrote:
>I think different *forms* of writing system are common:  minuscules from
>majuscules, katakana hiragana from kanji, mkhedruli from mrgvlovani [or
>whatever].  Sometimes one form is handwritten and one is printed (like
>Hebrew), one is used for special kinds of emphasis (Georgian, Japanese,
>italics), or maybe they get used as we think of as upper and lower case
>(Latin, Greek, Cyrillic--though even there different languages have
>different conventions).
IIRC Armenian has an UC/LC distinction, but I
don't know its origin.  Is it later and/or artificial?

/BP 8^)
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