John Cowan wrote:

>
> Peter T. Daniels scripsit:
>
> > > Returning to the Real World, is Yiddish orthography still an abjad,
> > > or has it too become alphabetic?
> >
> > Why would you suggest that Yiddish isn't an alphabet?
>
> I was trying to probe whether these labels (alphabet, abjad, etc.) refer
> to scripts or orthographies.

Do explain how such a distinction would work (and how it applies to
Yiddish). Be sure to include definitions of those two terms as well as
of "writing system."
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...