Thread:User talk:Yair rand/Phoenician/reply (4)

Punic is a late form of Phoenician. Yes, Perso-Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin and other scripts used for many different and unrelated languages are good examples when it makes sense to isolate a subset used for one particular language (e.g. Ukrainian alphabet = Cyrillic letter used for writing Ukrainian language). But when that is not the case, you'd end up with two categories with the same content. It's pointless to pursue idealized abstract principles which make no sense. Everything must be evaluated from utilitarian perspective. --Ivan Štambuk 11:53, 9 June 2010 (UTC)