Re: Divergent Scripts

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.

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