From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 28 2004 - 21:09:55 EDT
smontagu@smontagu.org wrote at 3:27 PM on Wednesday, April 28, 2004:
>Phoenician lacks Hebrew's separate forms for medial and final kaf, mem,
>nun, pe and tsadi, so there is not an exact one-to-one mapping.
Old Aramaic and Old Hebrew also lack them. Middle and Modern Hebrew
(along with later Aramaic), are in this regard, supersets of the older
orthography - everything needed for Phoenician (or for that matter Old
Hebrew or Old Aramaic) is already encoded in Middle and Modern Hebrew.
Respectfully,
Dean A. Snyder
Assistant Research Scholar
Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project
Computer Science Department
Whiting School of Engineering
218C New Engineering Building
3400 North Charles Street
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218
office: 410 516-6850
cell: 717 817-4897
www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi
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