From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Wed Apr 28 2004 - 16:45:12 EDT
On 28/04/2004 12:15, Peter Constable wrote:
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>Unless there are behaviours in Phoenician that distinguish it from
>Hebrew.
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I can't see anything in Phoenician (apart from the numbers) which
distinguishes it structurally from a subset of Hebrew. In fact that
subset is exactly the unpointed Hebrew subset used by most modern Hebrew
users. The best argument that Michael has is that Phoenician glyphs look
very different from Hebrew glyphs. But the variation of some Latin and
Cyrillic letters can be just as great. For that matter, modern cursive
Hebrew is almost as far from reference glyph Hebrew as Phoenician is
(and quite illegible to me!), but no one has proposed encoding it
separately.
Perhaps the Hebrew list is the best place to discuss the distinction
between Hebrew and Phoenician.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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