Re: abugida vs abjad vs alphabet vs syllabary
| From: | Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 26, 2002, 14:28 |
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> Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 13:16:17 +0400
> From: Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...>
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> > > I think that the occasional omission of the a-tehta in Quenya
> > > writing does not make the Tengwar an abugida. In true abugidas,
> > > there *is* no sign for the implicit vowel.
> >
> > Also, Quenya mode does not have a mark to suppress the implicit
> > vowel, and doesn't form conjuncts where it's missing --- of course
> > those aren't necessary to the definition, but they are common
> > features of abugidas when the language has a variety of syllable
> > final consonants.
>
> Heck! Did I _not_ say it was a _partial_ example??? :-)
Well, checking the archives, you did. But by time John quoted Ray
answering you, that was gone.
On the subject of quoting: Deleting the names of other posters doesn't
help either.
Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)
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