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• 0.1, 22 June 2020

• 0.2, 9 August 2021
• 0.3, 9 May 2022
• 0.3.1, 12 May 2022

Scope of this document

The number of linguistics characters in the Unicode Standard is enormous. No attempt is made here to cover all of them. The following are observations of phenomena that have had an impact on Brill’s treatment of linguistic texts. It should be noted that the term ‘linguistics’ can cover the study of specific languages; the study of ‘language’ as such (sometimes called ‘theoretical linguistics’); comparative linguistics; and philology, which is the study of all sorts of language phenomena within the context of traditional scholarly disciplines, such as Classical Studies, theology, Semitic Studies, Arabic Studies, Sinology, and so on.

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