(22-04-2025, 11:04 AM)oshfdk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.For me the more important sign is not how small the variation is, but how unambiguously it splits letterforms into distinct groups.
I like this formulation.
Now I know that @nablator has spent a very considerable time transliterating the text and looking at exactly these variations. His comment about a "continuum" is spot on, in my opinion.
A short summary:
It is not possible to unambiguously split between (non-exhaustive list):
o and a
r and s
Ch and Ih
m and g
In fact, in all cases, it would be possible to define a form in between each pair, but that only makes matters worse: instead of one fuzzy boundary we end up with two (for each pair).
Back to the point: these pairs are already considered to be different characters, but they are part of some continuum. This is even worse than the situation that each of these individual characters has a continuum of variations.


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