Re: abugida vs abjad vs alphabet vs syllabary
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 26, 2002, 16:24 |
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Pavel Iosad scripsit:
> > Heck! Did I _not_ say it was a _partial_ example??? :-)
Lars Henrik Mathiesen scripsit:
> Well, checking the archives, you did. But by time John quoted Ray
> answering you, that was gone.
Tengwar script is not a classical abjad nor abugida, but it is
closer to the abjad-archetype than the abugida-archetype, IMHO.
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