Re: abugida vs abjad vs alphabet vs syllabary

John Cowan wrote:

> BTW, Babm [boabomu] is written in a Latin-derived syllabary
(definitely
> not an abugida, and not, I think, an abjad either, though it would
> be possible to make such a case -- that the vowels are not written
> in CV syllables because they are overdetermined).
My latest and more serious proposal for an alternate script for Spanish
is based on a sylabary for three vowels, with modifiers and a few free
consonants:

Each of the main symbols represent a CV syllable wher V is either /e/,
/a/ or /o/.  Modifying symbols would make the vowel high, semivowel or
diphthong:
   C/e/+H = C/i/, C/e/+S = C/j/, C/e/+D = C/je/.
   C/o/+H = C/u/, C/o/+S = C/w/, C/o/+D = C/we/.
The semivowel modifier applied to a C/a/ syllable will make just a C.

-n, -s, -r and -l have they own symbols, so they do not use /na/+S.

Would this count as a syllabary, an abugida or an abjad?

-- Carlos Th

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