Re: Hmong and semi-syllabic writing

Barry Garcia wrote:
> I created a script once where you had characters for syllables, and also
> single characters for representing vowels, consonants, and diphthongs so
> that if you had a word like: 'naktaandai', you could write it out like:
> 'na-k-ta-a-n-d-ai'.
Well, Arabic has a diacritic for "no vowel", you could try that, so that
"naktaandai" might be something like (with diacritics in parentheses):

na-ka(NoVowel)-ta(Long)-na(NoVowel)-da-i

Or something similar.

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