Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

"Mark J. Reed" wrote:
>
> Just to make sure I have this right:
>
> "Uchyuu Senkan Yamato" has seven syllables (U/chyuu/sen/kan/ya/ma/to)
> and ten morae (U/chyu/u/se/n/ka/n/ya/ma/to).
>
> Does this imply that the kana are not true syllabaries but actually
> "moraries"?   I mean, the Hiragana transcription of the above
> has ten symbols, not seven.
"Morarie" might work, but I'd prefer "moraic script" for esthetic
reasons.

And actually, there's 11 symbols.

U chi (yu) u se n ka n ya ma to <-- the parentheses around _yu_ indicate
that it's small

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