Re: comohota

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> So why is it they wrote como-h-ota ?
> It should be mo(:)ta. Somebody wrote it two days ago.
> this leads to two questions :
> 1. why is it they wrote mota as mo-h-o-ta ?
> 2. why is it they chose -h- to display morphemic (?) cut ?
> What does all this mean ??

The Vai syllabary uses syllables normally representing syllables with
initial /h/ to lengthen vowels, so /ba:/ would be written ba-ha. The
Vai syllabary seems to be a 19th century invention.

Richard.