* Lars Marius Garshol
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| I agree that it is *parallel* to an abugida, but it doesn't fit the
| definition given in WWS, since that explicitly describes consonants
| as the base character.

* Michael Everson
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| Try to consider the WWS as descriptive rather than prescriptive.

I do. In fact, the definition of abugida I use is already different
from that of WWS[1]. I was first trying to find out what the principle
behind the Pahawh Hmong script was (the RPA romanization confused me
quite a bit at first), and once that was clear, to see if people felt
it fit into the existing typology or not.

The answer seems to be that Daniels thinks it is one-of-a-kind, but
sufficiently close to the existing abugida type that there's no need
to worry. Personally, I haven't decided what I think yet.

As for Smalley's book, it's already in my Amazon wishlist. :)

[1] <URL: http://www.ontopia.net/i18n/script-types.jsp >

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