Re: Syllabries? (was Re: "Colorless Green")

Estelachan@AOL.COM wrote:
> boy, you think you know the right word for something....heh. too much
> terminology! at least syllabry is closer than alphabet. although in the case
> of Hebrew, I should be specifying "Hebrew with the vowel markings"
Well, that's still an alphabet, as you have characters for individual
letters.  It's merely that the vowels go underneath the letter instead.

> there's a symbol for "k-" (as an example).
[snip]
> The basic characters for "akkyan" would
> be a(syl)-k-n(final) with diacritics on the k, and this counts as 3 syllables
> for musical or poetic purposes.
>
> so....what is the proper term for such a system?
As far as I know, it would just be called an alphabet.  Arabic and
Hebrew are called alphabets.  It's an interesting variant, tho.

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