Re: abugida vs abjad vs alphabet vs syllabary
| From: | Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 25, 2002, 5:25 |
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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?
Pavel
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