Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> I've seen transcriptions of African languages
> that looked worse than ideographic systems, and failed to capture many vital
> phonological phenomena.
That's not a fault of an alphabet. It's the fault of those who adapted
the roman alphabet. Had they been willing to create necessary
diacritics and/or new characters, they could've. And a syllabry would
be even more difficult to adapt to those languages.
> You only prove my point: the vowel was invented because the script the Greeks
> borrowed couldn't fit
I thought you were asking what improvement the vowel made to the
alphabet that the Greeks received.
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