From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Tue Jul 08 2003 - 15:24:00 EDT
Ted Hopp wrote on 07/08/2003 11:26:14 AM:
> Also, there are missing letters and there are missing letters. There are
> cases of a single text (e.g., Holzhausen Bible of 1889, Lowe and Brydone
> Bible of 1948, as documented by Yannis Haralambous) where the "missing
> letters" in some words are simply not present in the representation and
the
> vowels are placed on the consonants that do appear...
I have intended for a while to propose a character ELLIPTIC LETTER for
such situations, which occur for Hebrew but may also occur in other
paleographic studies. I think this is the best approach to that, but just
haven't had a chance yet to write the proposal.
- Peter
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Peter Constable
Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
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Tel: +1 972 708 7485
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