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Naming consistency[edit]

archived at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (writing systems)

Good article reassessment for Sinhala script[edit]

Sinhala script has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk)

In or of?[edit]

Question added per WP:Help desk#Another question 2405:4802:64C7:BF70:20BF:895B:4915:B58A (talk) 05:08, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Latin alphabet[edit]

Please can someone assist at Talk:B#Consistent proposal to unleash new format? We are trying to determine the best name for the thing of which B is the second letter. Thanks, Certes (talk) 18:16, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads-up, Certes. I think there is an opportunity to get better at reinforcing our naming convention at this discussion, and bring clarity to some of our project's most highly visited articles. Van Isaac, GHTV^cont_WpWS 19:23, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Vyaz (Cyrillic calligraphy)#Requested move 26 February 2024[edit]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Vyaz (Cyrillic calligraphy)#Requested move 26 February 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 11:43, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Croatian Glagolitic#Requested move 26 February 2024[edit]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Croatian Glagolitic#Requested move 26 February 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 18:05, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs#Requested move 1 March 2024[edit]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs#Requested move 1 March 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. RodRabelo7 (talk) 18:37, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Graphemics versus Grammatology[edit]

As far as I have read, these are two terms for the same field--i.e. the field that underlies this WikiProject. Obviously, Derrida's work is outsized and should be featured in any merger. Remsense 14:50, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Graphemics is often the study of significant contrasts within each writing system, while non-contrastive differences in visual appearances are relegated to graphetics. I don't think that "grammatology" is used too much by North American linguists, at least (and for some of them the Derrida thing would be a definite negative). The classic book Writing Systems by Geoffrey Sampson doesn't use "grammatology", as far as I can tell, and the word has an entry in only two of the four linguistics dictionaries I have on my shelf (five if you count different editions of David Crystal's "Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics"), and in both cases it's a brief one-line definition (as opposed to many other longer entries which go into detail)... AnonMoos (talk) 16:13, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do you think Grammatology constitutes an accidental POV fork? Remsense诉 16:14, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Avestan letter[edit]

I noticed in some Wikipedia articles (e.g. Avestan alphabet, Zoroaster) Avestan letter ⟨𐬚⟩ is transliterated as ⟨θ⟩ but scholars prefer the slightly different Greek letter ⟨ϑ⟩ (open form); for example Gippert.-- Carnby (talk) 15:40, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Pharnavaz I of Iberia#Requested move 6 February 2024[edit]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Pharnavaz I of Iberia#Requested move 6 February 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. RodRabelo7 (talk) 00:42, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]