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Re: Abugidas (was: Chinese writing systems)

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Thursday, November 7, 2002, 12:10
Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> 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.
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. -- Even a refrigerator can conform to the XML John Cowan Infoset, as long as it has a door sticker jcowan@reutershealth.com saying "No information items inside". http://www.reutershealth.com --Eve Maler http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

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