Ah. See, that's why I couldn't identify what "Æbjæd" was. I didn't know the word "abjad". After a Google search, though, okay, it makes a little more sense now, though I'm still not quite sure how you decided which short vowels to include and which to omit.
As for the upside-down omega being an upsilon, though: well, no it's not, not unless there's some weird thing with the font display going on and it looks different on your computer than mine. Or unless there's some variant upsilon I'm not familiar with. At least for every upsilon I've seen, and in both Greek dictionaries I have on hand, a capital upsilon looks like a Y (sometimes with recurving diagonals), and a lower upsilon looks kind of like a squiggly u. (See, for example, here.) I don't know what that upside-down omega thing is, but I'm pretty sure it's not an upsilon.
Ah, according to this page (and others that turned up with a Google search, too), the upside-down omega is called... an "upside-down omega". Well, there you go, then. ;)
To be fair, I also ran across a page or two that did mention "upsilon" and "upside-down omega" as synonymous, but that didn't seem to be attested on any page that actually dealt with the Greek alphabet (none of which gave this form for the upsilon), and I'm going to chalk it down to a mistake unless I see good evidence to the contrary. (I've seen plenty of other falsehoods and misnomers propagate on the web, some much more widely than this one...)
The diacritics are showing up, yes, though displaced from the letters I assume they're supposed to be over. (At least some of them are showing up, but maybe there are others there that aren't, which might explain the apparent inconsistency with the short vowels.) Though whatever you're proposing to replace the upside-down omega with is not showing up; I just see two question marks with a space between them.
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Date: 2004-08-18 06:05 pm (UTC)As for the upside-down omega being an upsilon, though: well, no it's not, not unless there's some weird thing with the font display going on and it looks different on your computer than mine. Or unless there's some variant upsilon I'm not familiar with. At least for every upsilon I've seen, and in both Greek dictionaries I have on hand, a capital upsilon looks like a Y (sometimes with recurving diagonals), and a lower upsilon looks kind of like a squiggly u. (See, for example, here.) I don't know what that upside-down omega thing is, but I'm pretty sure it's not an upsilon.
Ah, according to this page (and others that turned up with a Google search, too), the upside-down omega is called... an "upside-down omega". Well, there you go, then. ;)
To be fair, I also ran across a page or two that did mention "upsilon" and "upside-down omega" as synonymous, but that didn't seem to be attested on any page that actually dealt with the Greek alphabet (none of which gave this form for the upsilon), and I'm going to chalk it down to a mistake unless I see good evidence to the contrary. (I've seen plenty of other falsehoods and misnomers propagate on the web, some much more widely than this one...)
The diacritics are showing up, yes, though displaced from the letters I assume they're supposed to be over. (At least some of them are showing up, but maybe there are others there that aren't, which might explain the apparent inconsistency with the short vowels.) Though whatever you're proposing to replace the upside-down omega with is not showing up; I just see two question marks with a space between them.