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Michael Adams wrote:
> Keith, talking the old alphabet, Irish Uncial/Irish Insular..
That's still the Latin alphabet. The only other alphabet that's seen
even mild usage with Irish is Ogham. It's just a different typeface
and no more a different alphabet than the use of blackletter was.
> Will see if I can do an example for ya.
>
> But B with a dot over it, is BH which sounds like V.
Only in some places, and only under certain circumstances.
Study Irish and you'll see there's nothing particularly odd or
complicated about this.
> I was more talking about writing it out and in cursive. How many
> times is a DOT left out or makes the base letter look wierd or
> worse.. Unreadable..
Hardly! It makes it no more unreadable than an acute accent when
indicating long vowels. You'll have to give some kind of an example
to demonstrate what you're talking about.
> Russians, yes, based on current in I rememember 12th century
> Greek. Cyrillic named for St. Cyril but done my his buddy St.
> Methodius, Cyrill did Old Church Slovonic, talk about getting
> creative with Greek inspired characters..
>
> Roman/Latin characters is based on Greek, either via the
> Etruscans or the Greeks in southern Italy (Gracia Majora), or
> maybe those on Sicily..
But at an earlier stage, and you could make the same remarks of
creativity about the Latin alphabet as the Cyrillic one.
[Clip ramblings that have no bearing on this.]
I still don't understand your thesis.
K.
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