suzmccarth wrote:

> > > No reason a-spi-ta-sko-pi-so-n couldn't be analyzed with CCVs though
> >
> > No reason but typology. And perhaps comparative Algonquian. I don't
> > think there are word-intial sC's, but it's been a very long time since
> > my Algonquian seminar with Hockett.
>
> There are no word initial s(C) syllables and my example <a-s-pi-ta-s-
> ko-pi-so-n> with breaks represents how it is encoded into syllabic
> units as V or CV syllables with syllable final s and word final n
> encoded by superscript characters representing a consonant only.
>
> It just seems to me that Tamil with CV and final CV-C pattern could
> also be encoded with a syllabary.

Of course it _could_. It happens not to be.

Even English _could_ be encoded with a syllabary, but you'd need an
awful lot of symbols.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...