Re: abugida vs abjad vs alphabet vs syllabary

Pavel Iosad wrote:
>Hello,
>
> > The letters of an abugida represent syllables in which a consonant is
> > followed by a fixed vowel, called the implicit vowel.  Thus if /a/
> > is the implicit vowel, there will be letters for /ka/, /ta/, /la/,
> > etc.
>
>Which essentially makes the Quenya mode of the_tengwar_ a partial
>example. Am I right?
If you mean the version which leaves out the a-tehta, then yes it's a sorta
abugida. The version which does use the a-tehta is an atypical abjad which
insist on including vowel marks all the time.

                                                   Andreas

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