Re: Are these languages left to right or right to left ? and windows.

LEE Sau Dan (in sci.lang):

"Adam" == Adam Funk <a24061@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> Yiddish uses a complete alphabet (not an abjad or abjad +
>> matres lectionis); it does not put (optional) vowel points
>> under consonant letters. Some of its vowel letters have the
>> shape of consonant + vowel point, but the "vowel points" are
>> not omissible and cannot be placed under any consonant letters.

Adam> (Sorry for the late reply, but I just thought of this.)

Adam> Do you have a technical term to say that two scripts belong
Adam> to two different categories but use predominantly the same
Adam> characters?

I think the current Uyghur script has that property too. That script
is based on the Arabic alphabet, but with vowel letters created by
composing Arabic letters and short-vowel marks.


The Japanese writing used in Kojiki (Chinese characters used for phonetic
value) should be another example.

Joachim
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