Quoting Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>:
> On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 13:59:43 -0400, John Cowan <jcowan@...>
> wrote:
>
> > In the meantime, various other systems have been devised more or less
> > independently: these turn out to always be syllabic.
>
> Although arguably in the less-independent column, there are Sorang Sompeng
> (an abugida), Ol Cemet' (an alphabet), and Varang Kshiti (which is a
> defective abugida), all invented for minority languages in India.
"Defective" abugida? How does that work?
Andreas