Re: Aramaic unification and information retrieval

From: John Cowan (cowan@mercury.ccil.org)
Date: Tue Dec 23 2003 - 01:10:53 EST

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    Christopher John Fynn scripsit:

    > Which script does the small community of native Aramaic speakers that still
    > exists use to write their own language?

    I don't think anyone is proposing to unify away any script in current use.
    It's whether the archaic scripts can be unified with modern ones,
    as Church Slavonic is unified with modern Cyrillic, or MONVMENTAL CAPS with
    Latin. 

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