Majuscules and minuscules

[Mark Mandel]

Offhand I know of one, and an artificial one at that. In Shavian, names are
preceded by a centered dot.

m a m

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> In Latin-based scripts and a few others, majuscules are used to
> indicate proper nouns (people, places, organizations, etc.)
>
> Are there any scripts where a different technique is used to
> distinguish proper from common nouns?  A kind of diacritical
> marking?  An additional word or particle?  Etc.
>
> Joel
>

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