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Talk:Ranjana script

message: Although the Ranjana script is used by Tibetans to write Sanskrit, it is not used by Newars or Tibetans to write the Tibetan language. The Ranjana script lacks several consonants required to write Tibetan: Tibetan letters ca  (U+0F45), cha (U+0F46), ja (U+0F47), zha (U+0F5E), za (U+0F5F) and 'a (U+0F60). (Note: the Ranjana and Devanagri letters ca, cha, ja, and jha are transcribed in Tibetan as the Tibetan letters tsa (U+0F59), tsha (U+0F5A), dza (U+0F5B) and dzha (U+0F5C) respectively.) I am therefore removing the erroneous references to the Ranjana script being used to write Tibetan from the article. 
There is a Tibetan script called Pungchen, modeled on Ranjana / Lanydza (and at first glance easily mistaken for Ranjana) which is occasionally used for writing Tibetan.    
 
Chris Fynn (talk) 16:23, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: The Ranjana script is not used to write Tibetan

message: Both this article and Lanydza script explain that it is essentially the same script, so there should clearly be only one article about it. --Latebird (talk) 15:24, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: But, although he has clearly done a tremendous amount of work making Lanytsha and Vartu fonts, in the end  that "guy" is an amateur (in the best sense of that term) expert and http://www.lantsha-vartu.org/ is his self-published site. On that web-site he cites no reliable source which states that they they are sufficiently different or divergent to be normally classified as separate scripts. There are also significant differences between e.g. Roman , Fraktur, Uncial,  Insular and other forms of the Latin script but in the end they are usually classified as one script or writing system (Latin script) with different glyph forms (though they do have their own individual Wikipedia articles).   Incidentally, several sources actually cited in the present article (e.g. Omniglot.org, www.dharma-haven.org, www.teachingsofthebuddha.com  and Jwajalapa) also suffer from the same problem of being self-published sources which are really not good enough for a Wikipedia article.  Chris Fynn (talk) 10:06, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge  
Talk:Readspel

message: Unless Kingsley Read is also notable for something beyond his Shavian alphabet revisions and as the father of Readspel, I say that his bio should be the article with redirects coming from Soundspell and Readspel.  75.225.83.38 (talk) 22:51, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge?  Yes!
Talk:Refreshable braille display

message: Consider adding an external link to <www.TactileRevolution.org>, which describes an umbrella organization promoting widespread availability of the devices that are the subject of the article.  There is useful information on several pages of that site, particularly the glossary.
The site is new as of this month, but it is expected to grow steadily as it matures into a clearing house of current activity.
98.216.34.132 (talk) 21:28, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

message: Some cleanup tasks I can do, but this one's a bit beyond my skill.  When I tried to follow the link from the footnote citing an article about a Flemish researcher with a Braille computer mouse/Braille display, it led to a ZDNet site's front page which didn't seem able to find the article.  I can't find any English-language version of the Ziff Davis article.  Can you?  Google located the original-language page at http://www.zdnet.nl/braille/43665/vlaamse-onderzoekster-ontwikkelt-braillecomputermuis/ and one paper (primary source, published by that Flemish researcher, but it doesn't mention the process of commercialisation) at http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/electa/publications/fulltexts/pub_1215.pdf.  I'm not sure what is the proper procedure for repairing the reference, either.  I hope this is helpful.  Egmonster (talk) 20:52, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I updated the reference URL. You have to edit the section of the text where the number appears, not the references section. --erachima talk 21:02, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Broken link I don't know how to fix

message: {Japanes Braille Article] Please add the other Unicode Character values for all of the other diacritic character and punctuation please...
managed to show it decently enough with both Graphic and Unicode values for the basic characters and graphically for the rest of the characters..just lacking completeness on the Unicode Block. 80.5.219.60 (talk) 20:44, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  {Talk: Japanes Braille Article] Please add the other Unicode Character values for all of the other diacritic character and punctuation please 

message: Free wag Ty 2A02:9B0:4008:3DC6:2D56:EAFF:715A:A72F (talk) 21:19, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  R we r re
Talk:Resh

message: I have observed many Ashkenazim in America, in particular Hasidim, who pronounce the resh as an alveolar flap. I think this should also be an accepted Ashkenzi pronunciation.
Fight26club (talk) 19:16, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The following sentence regarding the similarity of the D & R letters in Hebrew is included in the text as if it is a self-evident point: "The similarity led to the variant spellings of the name Nebuchadnezzar and Nebuchadrezzar." The problem is that prima facie, this comparison is NOT between D & R but rather N & R. This makes no sense and should be removed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.8.29.142 (talk) 14:46, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nebuchadwhater?
Talk:Rho

message: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rho#Mathematical_Rho
There is a capital theta in the middle of rhos.
Well, I changed that...
Sjjamsa (talk) 06:15, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong symbol for MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL RHO 

message: "a double rho within a word is written with a smooth breathing over the first rho and a rough breathing over the second — ῤῥ"
In my own reading of ancient Greek texts I've never seen breathings over rhos within a word, e.g. ἔρραψα (Hdt. 9.17), nor have ever heard of such a convention. I don't want to remove it, if it actually holds for medieval manuscripts or something, but I'm dubious. Dd42 (talk) 23:14, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Breathings over internal rho 

message: In Latex, there is no \Rho. Also, I fixed the symbols to correspond with the actual Latex output  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.6.168.245 (talk) 19:47, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latex \Rho 

message: Shouldn't the article have something about the letter's relation to the plastic number? Skittlesrgood4uTalk Page/Contributions/Sandbox 22:55, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plastic Number 

message: We need an IPA pronunciation for this... Corovan (talk) 10:17, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: Isn't rho also the symbol for momentum in physics?
Ashwin N (talk) 19:49, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Momentum 

message: Up to 2004-05-08, the page at Rho was the page about the letter. It was cut-and-paste-moved to Rho (letter), and Rho was turned into a disambiguation page. I have now divided and re-merged the edit histories, moving the history of the disambiguation page to Rho (disambiguation), and merging the more recent history of Rho (letter) back into Rho, per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Fut.Perf. ☼ 22:42, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move + histmerge 

message: The image on the page has a rho which looks the latin R. Is there a glyph for this?Naraht (talk) 15:38, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: By "glyph", do you mean a separate Unicode codepoint? No, there isn't. What we do have here on Wikipedia, for purposes of articles like Archaic Greek alphabets, is a set of svg image files for all sorts of epigraphic letter shapes, which you can embed in text if you need them, like this: . See :commons:Category:Greek epigraphic Rho for more variants. Fut.Perf. ☼ 15:52, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  R shaped Rho
Talk:Ri (kana)

message: I've seen a (Hiragana only?) variant of this kana where it appears to be written in one stroke and looks somewhat like the International Phonetic Alphabet velar nasal symbol (ŋ). Since sa (kana) and ki (kana) mention variants, can someone please mention this and preferably provide an image? I'd do it myself, but I know next to nothing about Japanese. --334a (talk) 19:37, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I went to Talk to write an almost identical comment, so I am glad I found yours. Hopefully someone more versed in the language pulls through. Arlo James Barnes 04:46, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Was staring at a picture of Inarizushi going "The first two characters are いな so the third has to be some version of Ri," which brought me here.  Added a single sourced line about it but did not show it (don't know of any free pics) or explain it (the source does not and I couldn't even if I had any idea). Ian.thomson (talk) 02:13, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

text: I am also interested in whether the single-stroke form has its own Unicode codepoint.  Maddeningly, when I find it in text, then copy and paste it, it reverts to the standard two-stroke form! --IanOsgood (talk) 17:49, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  No, there is no separate codepoint, as there is no semantic distinction between connected and unconnected forms, and Unicode is unlikely to encode even a variation sequence for it. The difference is purely one of typographic choice, and there is never a situation where either the connected or unconnected form would be "wrong". Some fonts may choose to use the connected forms, much like さ and き, although you are much less likely to see a connected り. But there is an image on the page at the stroke order section of the single-stroke, connected form. VanIsaac, MPLL contWpWS 00:18, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for the thoughtful reply. --IanOsgood (talk) 14:45, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hiragana Variant
Talk:Ring (diacritic)

message: In reconstructed Old Chinese, what does "n" with ring below mean? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 01:34, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: N with ring below

message: I’ve been trying to create an article for q̊/Q̊, but instead of it saying “Make a new article” it redirects here. Trying to fix problem but I’ve never made a Wiki article before Oval52 (talk) 20:11, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: If you want to create a separate article you would edit the redirect page at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Q%CC%8A&redirect=no with the article contents.  Make sure it's well sourced (using references).  DRMcCreedy (talk) 22:35, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: q̊/Q̊ article

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :R̥̄ and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 April 3#R̥̄ until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  1234qwer1234qwer4 13:38, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "R̥̄" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Dynkin system

message: The equivalent λ system is defined as follows:
Definition. A family L of subsets of C is called a λ-system if
:(1) Ω belongs to L,
:(2) L is closed under complementation,
:(3) L is closed under countable unions of pw disjoint sets.
Given any class C of sets, L(C) denotes the λ-system generated by C. Jackzhp 23:50, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  λ system 

message: I suggest adding in a proof for Dynkin's Lemma.--A 20:00, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If the site is self-published, as it appears to be, then it would not qualify unless the author is already a recognized (and published) expert on the topic. The author calls himself a derivatives trader. While he cold have a degree in statistics, we really don't know anything else about him or the website. See WP:RS and WP:V for the definitive rules.  ·:· Will Beback  ·:· 22:41, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A λproof for Dynkin's Lemma? 

message: Maybe the "Dynkin's π-λ Theorem" is sometimes called "Dynkin's lemma", but surely it is not the "Doob–Dynkin lemma" (and not related to it). I correct the text accordingly. Boris Tsirelson (talk) 08:21, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not the Doob-Dynkin lemma
Talk:Australian Youth Orchestra

message: Can there be any sub heading in the article about the audition-fixing scandals of 2007-2008?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.45.138.116 (talk) 05:13, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corruption 
Talk:Ŝ

message: The comments on Cyrillic need review or clarification.  First "The Cyrillic letter ш represents the same sound" and then "Ŝ is used in ISO 9:1995 ... for letter Щ." But ш and щ are distinct letters.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:A:2301:545D:6E62:6DFF:FE98:3995 (talk) 01:38, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
Talk:Š

message: The Esperantese (?) alphabet uses the Š-character too. I think it should be inluded in the article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wnauta (talk • contribs) 12:07, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No it does not, it uses character ŝ (check uside down). --Jakubt (talk) 22:47, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Esperanto 

message: Note: this is not a symbol of the Finnish alphabet. It may appear in Finnish language text when referring to certain words which deploy the symbol in the source language but it is incorrect to state that it is a part of the Finnish alphabet. To this end, it can be deployed in all languages using the Roman script. Evlekis (talk) 17:28, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Finnish

message: Faster than Thunder (talk) 23:11, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Telugu క and Š look alike when handwritten. Š is sometimes written with the caron touching both uppercase and lowercase.
Talk:2003 Red Square bombing

message: Move article so that title reflects actual subject. Akradecki 04:53, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: No. It was on Mokhovaya street near the Kremlin, but not on Red Square. I'm studying in the MSU on this street and I remember this terract.
:It was even more on Tverskaya than on Mokhovaya, near the Nacional hotel. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dzerod (talk • contribs) 09:39, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mokhovaya 
Portal talk:India/Did you know

message: Do the older ones go on top or bottom? -- Lost(talk) 04:53, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It happens in FIFO. When adding, add to the top; while archiving, archive from the bottom. But I have the feeling this wasnt what you were asking, were you? :P-- thunderboltz(Deepu) 05:16, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually I was asking about the archives. When adding to archives, should I add the new ones at the top? I guess you are also referring to archives. If so, then my question is answered -- Lost(talk) 05:18, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, add the new ones to the top till they reach 50 in number (when you have to archive the archive). -- thunderboltz(Deepu) 05:32, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Samaritan script

message: GNU UniFont 5.1 (2008 Sept 7) does not appear to contain any code for the Samaritan x800-x83f page section. 
Is there a comprehensive UniCode font available that includes Samaritan? 
A good place to include this information, I think, would be in the UniCode section of this article. 
The UniCode section does not display anything nice without a Samaritan UniCode font installed and enabled in the browser. 
There are announcements that UniCode 5.2 standard has been released and that the 5.2 UniCode standard includes the Samaritan font section.  I have yet to find any 5.2 UniCode comprehensive font. 
Howard McCay (talk) 23:57, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: I would like to use this script.&nbsp; How can I get it from UniCode?

message: I've read the oldest Samaritan texts (i.e. in the Samaritan script) said to still be existent today (manuscripts, etc) are among the Samaritan community a claimed 11th century CE text and that scholars have and study from the 16th century CE.Historylover4 (talk) 21:10, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oldest Samaritan text still existent today 

message: It is not given; it seems to be assumed that it is the same as that of the hebrew letters. --Manfariel (talk) 18:58, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation
Talk:Samekh

message: I removed the following text, due to its being innacurate or obscure, and for its sources not being cited:
"The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Xi (Ξ)."
Samekh may have originated lower case sigma σ, by a horizontal flip of ס, not Xi (or, more correctly, Khi), which, in turn, is not written "Ξ" (ksi), but Χ (lower case χ). Now, Σ is probably for s(h)in ש, or arabic س.
:I think you missunderstood something there. Ξ comes from Phoenician Samekh. The X of Latin is its PHONETIC equivalent. The Latin X comes from the old Western Greek alphabet, where it had the phonetic value [ks], but Eastern Greek (standard Greek) uses X for [kh]. The letter X is a Greek creation from Kappa and it is nowhere found in Semitic abjads. So everything is allright about Ξ originating from Samekh. Einstein92 (talk) 17:23, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Text Removed 

message: What's the story on these two names? Is the difference linguistic or temporal? 12:27, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps I misunderstand you, but Semkat/Semkath is the name of the related Syriac letter, whereas Samekh is the Hebrew 'version'.  They are each descendants, so to speak, of the Aramaic alphabet.  See the article for more clarification: Aramaic Alphabet.  Geofferic T•C✡ 02:06, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Samekh/Semkath 

message: S is derived from Shin, not Samekh. X is derived from the Greek letter Chi, not Samekh.47.187.192.67 (talk) 03:10, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  X and S 

message: To be frank, it doesn't really add anything to the discussion of samekh as a letter 5.29.20.124 (talk) 10:30, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delete Talmudic story on Samekh
Talk:List of countries by total area (graphical)

message: Neat!  Very cool!  Great job!  Thanks!  --Rednblu 04:56, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You're welcome! :) – Quadell (talk) (bounties) 12:32, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

text: You're right. I fixed that. – Quadell (talk) (random) 20:45, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  On looking for a quick way to grasp this 

message: A discussion has been started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries/Lists of countries which could affect the inclusion criteria and title of this and other lists of countries.  Editors are invited to participate. Pfainuk talk 11:40, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: New Discussion

message: Maybe some others are missing too?178.197.254.3 (talk) 19:57, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It is only too small to be there. Now, the smallest is Iceland, which about 2.5 times larger than Switzerland. 85.217.39.33 (talk) 17:44, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: I don't see Switzerland on here

message: Sudan/South Sudan now mess things up here, with the former dropping down a few notches on the top graph and the latter appearing on the bottom.  No idea how to effectuate this change, though...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elnok (talk • contribs) 17:47, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sudan messes this up
Talk:Sarati

message: I would contend that the sarati is not an abugida. It does not assume there is an 'a' attached to every consonant, nor is there a notation for explicitly noting a lack of vowel. The 'a' is just not written in as it is very common. It is the same for chat, for instance. We don't type in the article on most nouns if we are just informally typing, but this does not suggest that all nouns have an implied article.
Silmenuquerna 15:07, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: An abugida is a script where vowels are secondary to consonants. Many Indic abugidas do not modify their consonants to indicate vowels, many do not have a kill stroke, and the assumed a is a feature specific to Indic abugidas, but not necessary to the definition of the term. kwami 23:30, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sarati

message: Some photo of examples would be good. 65.94.45.160 (talk) 10:21, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Examples

message: This article is a mess. It's chaotic, unclear, lacks detail and many statements don't belong in the section they're in.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.114.146.117 (talk) 10:42, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mess
Talk:Secretary hand

message: Which was at least one hundred years before the dates given for the secretary hand. What exactly is the relevance? (fotoguzzi) 69.64.235.42 (talk) 08:13, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:   Pietro Carmeliano, one of Henry VII's chaplains 

message: At the moment the article says almost nothing about the actual letter forms. In the long run it would be wonderful to have a table showing the common forms and variants. That would be very ambitious. But a good first step would be to actually transcribe the documents. Here is the beginning of an attempt to transcribe the 1623 covenant bond. I'm starting at the ornate T about a quarter of the way down the page. I don't vouch for much accuracy -- I'm hoping that people who read secretary better than I will chip in.
The condicioun of this obligacoun (sic) is sure, that if the above bounden Margaret Boucher & her heires shall from time to time & att all and evrie time and times for ever performe(?) and keepe as well all and singular ??? graunts things & agreemts conteyned & ??? in one ??? bearinge date the second day of May laste pay(?) ??? before the date hereof ...
Well, I'm running out of steam and confidence here, but I hope others can see the usefulness of such an addition to the article, and can extend my poor beginning. ACW (talk) 23:44, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Let's prepare a transcription of the displayed documents
Talk:Sh (digraph)

message: Anyone got any sorces about this digraph's origin (as a representation of /S/)? I think it attempts to be some sort of an average of /s/ + /x/ — also CF German <sch>! — but I could be mistaken. --Tropylium 19:08, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Old English used sc instead. The h could be due to Norman influence. But I don't really know... FilipeS 18:01, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

text: P.S. Read Sch (trigraph). FilipeS 23:08, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: While the origin remains uncertain, I'd like to ask when it was removed from use in English publishing? 58.178.163.234 (talk) 05:36, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Should Zh have it's own page like Sh, and why? Callieson (talk) 15:51, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin
Talk:Sha (Cyrillic)

message: The similarity to Arabic sin/shin is striking, and it is also referred to in the Article about the Arabic sin that it is "it is often suggested that the [Russian] letter sha is directly borrowed from the Hebrew letter shin (other hypothesized sources include Coptic and Samaritan)". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_(letter)#Arabic_%C5%A1%C4%ABn/s%C4%ABn include that into the article?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.202.112.166 (talk) 14:20, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The article already gives a derivation. The Hebrew shin is the most obvious modern parallel. There's no reason to go over all other related derivatives in other scripts in this article. Largoplazo (talk) 14:47, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  similarity/ related to other letters
Talk:Shi (kana)

message: There's something that baffles me. Why is it pronounced with a "d" if it's derived from the shi, and not the chi? I hope i'm not using it as a forum talk. --2A01:E35:2F23:5EA0:7133:75CD:D9B5:FB1F (talk) 08:06, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ji
Talk:Sini (script)

message: Why is this page related to Islam in china??
its about Arabic Script, and not a Historical Islmic event in china!!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arab League (talk • contribs) 12:26, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Because it was developed in China ... cab 10:44, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

message: — Assignment last updated by Bumblebeatrice (talk) 19:09, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Islamic Arts of the Book