08-09-2016, 07:06 AM
Julian,
(Please be gentle: I'm not a codicologist or linguist) but.. do you think it possible that the initial "8" might represent something which was a non-sound to non-natives.
Like the initial glottal stop in Arabic and Hebrew, or the BM+vowel in some African languages. Might a different attitude to how vocalisation should be represented in script explain some of these differences?.
(Please be gentle: I'm not a codicologist or linguist) but.. do you think it possible that the initial "8" might represent something which was a non-sound to non-natives.
Like the initial glottal stop in Arabic and Hebrew, or the BM+vowel in some African languages. Might a different attitude to how vocalisation should be represented in script explain some of these differences?.