Akkha script (used by Eastern Magar language) in ISO 15924?

[Philippe Verdy via Unicode]

Also we can note that "mgp" (Eastern Magari) is severely endangered
according to multiple sources include Ethnologue and the Linguist List.
This is still not the case for Western Magari (mostly on Nepal, not in
Sikkim India), where evidence is probably easier to find (where the
encoding of a new script and disunificaition from Brahmi, may then be more
easily justified with their modern use, and probably unified with the
remaining use for Eastern Magari).


Le lun. 22 juil. 2019 à 19:33, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p at wanadoo.fr> a écrit :

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> Le lun. 22 juil. 2019 à 18:43, Ken Whistler <kenwhistler at sonic.net> a
> écrit :
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>> See the entry for "Magar Akkha" on:
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>> http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei/scripts-not-encoded.html
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>> Anshuman Pandey did preliminary research on this in 2011.
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> That's what I said: 8 years ago already.
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>> http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11144-magar-akkha.pdf
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>> It would be premature to assign an ISO 15924 script code, pending the
>> research to determine whether this script should be separately encoded.
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> And before that, does it mean that texts have to use the "Brah" code for
> early classification if they are tentatively encoded with Brahmi (and
> tagged as "mgp-Brah", which should limit the impact, because there's no
> other evidence that "mgp", the modern language, is related directly to the
> old Brahmi script, when the "mgp" still did not even exist) ?
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