Re: Abugidas (was: Chinese writing systems)

John Cowan wrote:
>Andreas Johansson scripsit:
>
> > I knew the better part of what you wrote below; it's the term
> > "alphasyllabary" I' unsure about. According to Barry Garcia, a such is
> > indeed a mixture of an alphabet and a syllabary, which don't sound very
>much
> > like either an abjad or an abugida. So where's the problem?
>
>Well, an abugida has some characters that represent vowels, and others
>that represent consonant+vowel combinations, and was a lump term for
>all these things that are neither alphabets nor syllabaries, until
>Daniels (or maybe Bright) suddenly saw that there were really two different
>script types here.
Are you trying to say that "alphasyllabary" is an out-dated term for
abugida? If so, explaining it as a mix of an alphabet and a syllabary
appears, to me, less than helpful.


                                                                  Andreas

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