LL-L 'Language proficiency' 2006.07.31 (04) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 31 July 2006 * Volume 04
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From: 'Ben J. Bloomgren' <godsquad at cox.net>
Subject: LL-L 'Language proficiency' 2006.07.29 (07) [E]

> It's an interesting conclusion for linguistics as a whole - it would
> mean that language and the medium are distinct, that sound isn't an
> integral part of language, and other media (certainly a visual medium)
> could be developed into a full human language.
>
Braille?

Henry, I disagree that Braille is a language per se. It's an alphabet or a
syllabary as the spoken or written language requires. The Roman alphabet
isn't a language, as it serves to reduce to writing many languages. Japanese
Kana Braille is a syllabary as the Kana are. Mandarin Chinese Braille is
based on initials and finals as Pinyin is. If people still used Egyptian and
Mayan hieroglyphics, they would create a Braille system based thereupon.
Braille is very limited in its six dot form. With eight dots, everything is
possible with two "cells" of eight dots. You can represent all of Unicode
that way, and I've heard about two systems of Kantenji, or Japanese Kanji
Braille.
Ben 

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