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Re: Optimum number of symbols

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 12:34
Raymond Brown scripsit:

> Very interesting. AFAIK nothing like the "syllabaire" was ever used in > English; I guess French having a greater ratio of open to blocked syllabl= > es > than English probably makes it a more suitable approach.
It was also used extensively by the famous literacy educator Paulo Friere in Brazil and later in Chile. ObOT: There is a Native language of Canada, I forget which, that is written with a "Latin-based cursive syllabary". The characters of the syllabary are composed of the appropriate Latin letters written cursively joined, but separated by whitespace from neighboring syllabograms. Each syllabogram is learned and thought of as a single grapheme, and printed forms of the language closely imitate the handwritten version. -- John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_