Re: Typology and classification Re: everything else

From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 557
Date: 2001-11-11

Peter_Constable@... wrote:
>
> On 11/11/2001 07:32:16 AM Michael Everson wrote:
>
> >I don't believe it meets the criteria for syllabary. It's completely
> >decomposable. And of course there were the Soviet experiments in
> >writing unclustered Hangul text.
>
> I'm not saying that it meets the criteria for syllabary. I'm saying that
> it meets criteria for a *different* class that I have called
> "alphasyllabary". I'm not suggesting that that class is an intersection of
> alphabet and syllabary.

That label certainly is!! Make up a new one.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...

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