Re: A Self-segregating morphology (was: Guinea pigs invited)

Quoting Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...>:

> On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:30, Gary Shannon wrote:
> > --- Patrick Littell <puchitao@...> wrote:
> > > On 12/18/05, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
> > > > --- Larry Sulky <larrysulky@...> wrote:
> > > > > Y'all are inventing Arabic, right?  :-)
> <snip>
> >
> > But it was my understanding that the Arabic alphabet
> > didn't include vowels. Ot maybe it was that Arabic
> > words were spelled without vowels. Anyway, I didn't
> > think Arabic used vowels to alter the meaning of
> > roots. I'm probably wrong on all three of those
> > counts.
>
> All the Semitic languages apart from Akkadian and its descendants Assyrian
> and
> Babylonian, used a vowelless writing system.  Arabic uses a development of
> the Aramaic script via Syriac.
Maltese is normally written in the Latin alphabet.

The Ethiopian languages are generally written in the Ethiopian abugida - whether
that qualifies as "vowelless" is debatable.

                                                          Andreas

                                             Andreas