Re: abugida vs abjad vs alphabet vs syllabary

Hello,

> > 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??? :-)

Pavel
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