Marco Cimarosti wrote:

>
> Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> > | Classical syriac Modern syriac Abjad
> > Alphabet
> >
> > * Peter T. Daniels
> > |
> > | Not really; the pointings merely changed from optional to
> > | obligatory.
> >
> > They did, and to me that means that it became an alphabet. If a script
> > consistently denotes the vowels, how can be it said to be an abjad? I
> > realize that the vowels are written with diacritical marks, but even
> > so.
>
> Isn't "abugida" the term for an abjad whose vowel marks became obligatory?

No, it's where the unadorned character is /Ca/ and vowel marks are added
to it to change the vowel.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...