Re: Pre-1923 characters?

From: Jim Allan (jallan@smrtytrek.com)
Date: Fri Jan 02 2004 - 18:56:36 EST

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Peter Kirk wrote

> You are probably safe with the Pan-Turkic Latin alphabet. It seems that
> this was adopted followng the First Turkology Congress, held in Baku in
> 1926, see
> http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/81_folder/81_articles/81_turkology_congress.html.

Not safe unless you *know* exactly when a character was invented.

Characters adopted into new standardized new Latin-based alphabets or
new standardized Latin-based transcription systems often have a previous
history.

Jim Allan

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