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Re: Tengwar for Non-Alphabets

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Sunday, January 5, 2003, 20:48
Mike Adams wrote:
> A Tengwar for Hebrew and other lingos that don't have a major need for vowels I expect could be > easy in that regard, but what of languages with alot of like sounds, or worse tonal? > > How about a mode for languages that are more syllablary in need/nature?
I can't see how a language that uses a syllabary would be difficult to represent with a phonemic alphabet. It might not be the most efficient way of writing it, but it shouldn't be hard. Tonal languages, on the other hand, are probably impossible to write in Tengwar without inventing a lot of new symbols.