Re: abugida vs abjad vs alphabet vs syllabary
| From: | Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 26, 2002, 8:21 |
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> Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 22:11:31 -0400
> From: John Cowan <jcowan@...>
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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.
Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)
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