Mark -> http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=\p{sc%3DLatn}
I think I have got the answer to my question in above link. Thanks Mark! Any letter/symbol has LATIN as part of its name should be pat of present day Latin-script. Is there any new letter/symbol added to Latin-script after creation of Unicode? Thanks to all for answering my question, especially Jony has answered with classic-definition of Latin-script (Latin-script did not have lower-case letters until probably late 8th century). Tulasi From: Mark Davis <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 21:26:43 -0700 Subject: Re: Latin Script To: Tulasi <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] For definitions, there are many references. For Unicode characters, the Standard defines a property in http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr24/ and http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Scripts.txt. Here is the current list: http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=\p{sc%3DLatn} Mark On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 20:39, Tulasi <[email protected]> wrote: Jony -> A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T V X Y Z ? You mean ALL CAPS again like UNICODE :) Van -> Do you mean historically or pragmatically? Actually something that will include all letters/symbols now considered Latin-script Otto Stolz -> Not exactly a definition: What the Unicode standard says on this issue, is here: There might be someone who already defined Latin script! Europeans have produced lot of scholars. Tulasi From: Jonathan Rosenne <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 22:05:11 +0300 Subject: RE: Latin Script To: [email protected] How about A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T V X Y Z ? There are also some extensions, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet for general background. Jony -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tulasi Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 11:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Latin Script How do you define Latin Script? From: [email protected] Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:18:29 -0700 Subject: Re: Latin Script To: [email protected], [email protected] >From: Tulasi ([email protected]) >How do you define Latin Script? Do you mean historically or pragmatically? Historically, it is an adaptation of the Ionian Greek (or is it Doric?), via Etruscan, for the purpose of writing Latin, and later extended by the addition of alternate letterforms (J, W, Þ, and the lower case) and diacritics to the use of western European languages and globally to indigenous languages in primary contact with western European languages that use the Latin alphabet. Pragmatically, it is the collection of characters that are used in languages in conjunction with the primary collection of Roman derived letterforms as an alphabetic script. This means that the syllabic Fraser Lisu is not Latin script. Neither is Cyrillic, even though it has imported Dze and Je - the basic Latin alphabet does not constitute the core of Cyrillic usage. Typographic tradition also plays a part - Greek would probably be a lot more ambiguous if it hadn't developed typographically among Byzantine scribes. Latin typography developed primarily among post-Roman and Carolignian scribal traditions, with offshoot blackletter and Italic scribal traditions that have secondary status in the modern script. Greek and Cyrillic don't share this history, and as such, even though they are structurally similar, they have evolved along different lines and constitute distinct scripts. The fact that you don't find languages that mix the two up is evidence of these schizms. The border languages choose one or the other, or they have two different orthographies that use each script independently of the other. Van From: Otto Stolz <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:50:23 +0200 Subject: Re: Latin Script To: Tulasi <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Am 2010-06-06 10:26, schrieb Tulasi: How do you define Latin Script? Not exactly a definition: What the Unicode standard says on this issue, is here: 7.1 Latin <http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.2.0/ch07.pdf#G4321> And a few words, e. g. “well-known”, are also here: 6.1 Writing Systems <http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.2.0/ch06.pdf#G7382> Best wishes, Otto Stolz
