Re: Typology and classification Re: everything else

At 01:00 +0100 2001-11-13, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:

>As it is I think I see only one necessary adjustment: to lift the
>restriction that alphabets must have characters of equal stature to
>represent consonants and vowels. With this requirement Thaana and
>Modern syriac become unhappy typeless orphans, while without it they
>are alphabets. This requirement also seems to me to serve no useful
>purpose.

I would describe Syriac as an abjad and Thaana as an alphabet. Why
are these controversial?
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