Re: Basque & Katzner's Languages of the World

D Tse scripsit:

> Sorry... abjad?
A writing system in which consonants are fully represented, and vowels
either are not written or are written as marks attached to the
consonants.  Hebrew and Arabic are the prototypes.

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