<div dir="ltr">Thanks for reposting this article. If anyone on the list can actually read and write Manchu, I'd love to hear from you with a view to carve a short piece of text in Manchu for the Endangered Alphabets Project.<div>Thanks!</div><div>Tim Brookes</div><div><a href="http://www.endangeredalphabets.com">www.endangeredalphabets.com</a></div><div><a href="mailto:brookes@champlain.edu">brookes@champlain.edu</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:17 AM, haroldfs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emailthis@ms3.lga2.nytimes.com" target="_blank">emailthis@ms3.lga2.nytimes.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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