Re: Typology and classification Re: everything else

On 11/12/2001 06:04:56 AM "Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

>> >Doubtful: 23 and 37 (both the same; would Bill call them
>> >alphasyllabaries?)
>>
>> Syriac and Thaana are not the same.

>Vowels are not optional in "Modern Syriac" or in Divehi. That's why
>they're alphabetlike (but because the letterforms differ qualitatively,
>they're not _really_ alphabets).

Apparently I misunderstood you: the names "Modern Syriac" and "Thaana"
refer to *different* scripts that have some of the *same* characteristics.



- Peter


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