On 03/27/2014 10:59 PM, Richard BUDELBERGER wrote:
Message du 28/03/14 03:34
De : Mark E. Shoulson
A : [email protected]
Objet : Re: Pali in Thai Script
It's not at all uncommon. Consider Yiddish, which is essentially German
written in Hebrew script. Or various Judeo-Arabics written in Hebrew,
and the Talmud, which is Aramaic written in Hebrew letters (in pretty
much every printing and MS I've heard of).
(What you call « Hebrew letters » are Aramaic letters of the alphabet adopted
by Hebrew in Vth c. BC.)
Of course. And the Samaritans still write both Hebrew and Aramaic as
well using truly _Hebrew_ characters (ktav ivri, though of course
developed by them through history), not the Aramaic-derived ones. But
Aramaic is more associated with various Syriac alphabets. Still, I was
reading Aramaic for a long time before I even knew there were Syriac
alphabets that people wrote Aramaic in, and I still can't particularly
read those.
I think I've seen colloquial Arabic in Hebrew letters (aimed at teaching
Hebrew-speakers, to be sure; maybe mostly to avoid having to teach a new
alphabet). Someone once sent me a proposal for writing Esperanto in
Hebrew letters (yes, Aramaic, of course: square Hebrew, ktav ashuri.
What Unicode calls "HEBREW"), to what purpose I don't know (it was more
or less the same as Yiddish writing). Sanskrit is also often seen in
various scripts, I believe.
I don't think it's unusual to find one language written in a script
generally associated with another, especially if the first language
doesn't have a well-established script for itself (not all the above are
examples of that).
~mark
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