From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 15:40:51 EDT
At 20:17 +0100 2003-07-15, Thomas M. Widmann wrote:
>John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> writes:
>
>> I'd like someone whose native script is Hebrew to comment on mutual
>> intelligibility, which was the main criterion for separating
>> Glagolitic from Cyrillic.
>
>But if that criterion is applied, surely Georgian Xucuri/Khutsuri
>should be separated from Georgian Mxedruli/Mkhedruli: Although there
>roughly is a one-to-one correspondence between the two, and although
>both are generally applied to the same language (though normally to
>different stages of it), they definitely are not mutually
>intelligible (and in fact knowledge of Xucuri seems to be quite low
>in Georgia).
The UTC has agreed that we should do this. After 8 years or so of my
whining.... ;-)
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