After careful consideration, Brill has taken the initiative of designing a typeface. Named “the Brill”, it presents complete coverage of the Latin script with the full range of diacritics and linguistics (IPA) characters used to display any language from any period correctly, and Greek and Cyrillic are also covered.
Christian Lehmann, Professor für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft an der Universität Erfurt, homepage; "look at Christian Lehmann's models on *how *to write a grammar of a language (any language) and slowly show how syntax, semantics, pragmatics, all have roles to play in the rules of the grammar."