--- Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:
> > As far as I can tell, Persian cuneiform was
> > consonant first. There were signs for A, I
> and U
> > however, which could be combined with other
> signs
> > to make a vowel first syllable.
>
> Yes, you are right. The Old Persian cuneiform
> script had only CV and V symbols.
Still makes for interesting reading!
> It was Akkadian system, which was used for many
> centuries,
> and for several other languages besides
> Akkadian that
> had CV, V and VC symbols, as well as a whole
> host of
> 'Sumerograms' which functioned rather like
> Hanji in modern Japanese.
Persian kept a couple of them as well. It is
largely this system that evolved into the
Talarian syllabaries.
Padraic.
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