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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Ausarian.: [qb] Doug, My question to you is: Do you find any similarities at all, across the alleged "Proto-Sinaitic-descended" scripts layed out in the image posted earlier, comparing Aramaic, Nabataean, Arabic and Syriac scripts? Upon closely examining the letters in the images posted, here's my estimation of similarities [i]based on alphabetic correspondences[/i], not mere [i]random[/i] resemblances of letters upon visualization: [CODE]Alpha. Demotic "Near Eastern" scripts k- 1 0 r - 0 1 n - 1 0 m - 0 1(Nabataean) q - 0 1 p - 0 1(first Arabic, then others) t(dot) 0 1 b - 0 1 y - 0 0 ` - 0 1 (Nabataean) g- 0 1(Aramaic, then Nabataean) s - 0 1(Nabataean) l- 0 1 w- 0 .5(partial resemblance upper hand goes to that vis-à-vis Arabic, when it looks like for Syriac, the curvature was not taken all the way}[/CODE]Looks to me that Syriac is still more inclined towards the other Proto-Sinaitic 'sub-script' counterparts. Specifically how were you making [i]mano a mano[/i] comparisons between the letters across the scripts, if not the way I went about it? You make a case that Aramaic interestingly [i]"began to exhibit many of the more cursive forms"[/i] around about the time when Assyrians invaded Egypt, but Aramaic isn't cursive. As for the Nabataean script, which allegedly developed from Aramaic, it emerged only at ca. 3rd century BC, lest you are referring to the Brahmi branch, which isn't exactly cursive either and whose dating to anywhere between ca. 6th century and 4th century isn't as clear as its more confident dating to ca. 3rd century BC. And even if one were to accept the high end dates attributed to Brahmi, Syraic is not an alleged descendant of Brahmi. Alleged cursive variants of Brahmi script appear from the 3rd century onwards, well beyond the origin date attributed to Demotic [6th century BC]. But what the heck; I'm willing to entertain a demonstration showing how Brahmi must have developed from the more cursive Demotic. You earlier said that all cursive scripts derived from Hieratic, as opposed to Demotic, and when pressed to demonstrate how this extends to southeast Asian scripts, you're mum about it. But the question that also needs to be asked about that, is why then was Hieratic simply not adopted earlier on, as opposed to proto-Sinaitic? Hieratic had been around since the pre-dynastic era. [/qb][/QUOTE]Actually I never said anything about southeast asian scripts. The fact remains that the first and oldest cursive script in the word originates in Egypt. Period. My only point is that not only did Egypt provide the basis of the alphabets of the Eastern Mediterranean, but it also provided the basis for the development of cursive forms in these alphabets, with the cursive form NOT being a separate and independent development. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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