Re: made-to-order alphabets

dirk elzinga scripsit:

> In Bright and Daniels _The World's Writing Systems_ there is mention
> made of a poem, attibuted to the Buddhist monk Kuukai, which uses each
> character of hiragana exactly once. It runs (in English
> transliteration):
This is called "iroha" order, and it is by no means dead, though
"modern" order (ka ki ku etc.) dominates.

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