Michael Everson wrote:

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> At 18:01 -0400 2002-07-13, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
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> >It certainly is an abugida, but of a unique type -- the only model I can
> >find to account for it is Burmese, and Smalley doesn't explicitly say
> >that he wasn't exposed to Burmese writing, only Lao, Thai, or
> >Vietnamese!
>
> Burmese behaves pretty unremarkably, Peter. What do you mean by this?

The "wretched excess" of Indic consonants (compared to the small number
of Burmese ones) allows their letters to be used for differentiating
Burmese's wretched excess of vowels.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...