Re: Abugidas (was: Chinese writing systems)

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.

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