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Syllabries? (was Re: "Colorless Green")

From:<estelachan@...>
Date:Monday, October 2, 2000, 10:46
In a message dated 10/1/00 5:36:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, fortytwo@GDN.NET
writes:

> > syllabries are wonderful. I took a year of Japanese and fell in love with > > them, although the one I'm using is a regular syllabry like that of
Hebrew
> or > > Sanskrit instead of having seperate ones for each CV combination. > > Those aren't syllabries. The one Hebrew has is called an abjad, or > consonantal script. Sanskrit uses a devangeri. A syllabry actually > marks syllables, like Japanese.
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", as opposed to the no-vowels kind.... I believe Arabic is like that too. In any case, Finvaran behaves like this: there's a symbol for "k-" (as an example). diacritics can be added for each of the five vowels, for -y-, and for doubled consonant (though not at the beginning of a word or after "n" on that last).... for example, the most complex syllable (using an "-a" to demonstrate) based around the "k-" character is "-kkya". There are also six characters for the syllabic vowels (i.e. the entire syllable is "a") and final n (like Japanese syllabic n). 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? ============================================================= I ate your Web page. Forgive me. It was juicy And tart on my tongue.