* Lars Marius Garshol
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| 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.
* Michael Everson
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| I would describe Syriac as an abjad
In modern Syriac all vowels are written, all the time. That's why I
think it is an alphabet.
| and Thaana as an alphabet.
Peter Daniels thinks it is a compulsorily vowelized abjad, because the
vowel characters are not given equal status to the consonant
characters.