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Re: Divergent Scripts

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Saturday, August 31, 2002, 4:39
Christopher Wright scripsit:

> I see > only one way to get a syllabary from an alphabet, and then it will be a > pretty logical one. You'd simply mash the characters together and try to > sort out the lines for ease of writing.
There's a syllabary used to write some language of Canada, I forget which, that is founded on Latin-script handwriting. To anyone who knows English or French, it's obvious that each syllable is being written in Latin script with a space between, but the native users think of the glyphs as complex syllabograms, kind of like Ethiopic characters. When printed, the handwritten form persists -- the handwritten letters are not replaced with Latin ones. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarves." --Murray Gell-Mann