shadda

From: Anton Sherwood (bronto@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 - 14:16:12 EST


>> Can't find it in my reference (which is quite thorough),
>> but that's not absolute proof!

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Any reference that doesn't refer to the shadda (the geminate mark,
> which looks like a w) can be immediately thrown away...

Didn't say it's not there, only that I couldn't find it -
and indeed my weary eyes skipped right over it. :(

The book, btw, is Daniels & Bright ed., <The World's Writing Systems>
(Oxford 1996). I refer to it often.

-- 
Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/


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