At 09:33 +0100 2001-11-13, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:

>| 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.

Well, Hebrew is used as a alphabet to write Yiddish. Nd Ltn cn b sd t
wrt Nglsh s n bjd f y wnt.

Syriac looks like pointed Arabic. The fili (vowels) in Thaana are
much larger than any of the vowels in Arabic.... They feel a lot more
like the vowel signs in Indic to me. I don't know what Peter means by
"not given equal status".
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