Re: Abugidas (was: Chinese writing systems)

John Cowan wrote:
> I didn't give any such explanation: someone else did.  "Alphasyllabary"
> has been applied in the past to both abugidas and abjads, and I do
> consider it obsolete.
Then, what about a system where some characters are alphabetic and some
are syllabic?  For example, Tivets, a provisional descendant of
Uatakassi, uses a script derived from the classic Kassi syllabry, but
some of the characters have come to refer to single phonemes, such as
/C/ or /tS/, while others are syllables, like /tu/, and still others can
be alphabetic or syllabic depending on context, like the same character
is used for /ta/ and syllable-final /ts/.  I'm not sure if there are any
natscripts like that, but I would call that constructed script an
alphasyllabry, since neither abjad nor abugida really describes it.

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