John Cowan wrote:

>
> node_ue scripsit:
>
> > Actually, now that I think about it, with the amount of information I
> > have, I'm not sure they can actually be used to write anything in
> > Yonaguni, since I've never seen any examples of their use. It's quite
> > possible that they were just used to record financial transactions
> > ("so-and-so sold X amount of barley...") and the like.
>
> Well, if it comes to that, we have no evidence that Linear B was used
> for any other purpose either, although it certainly could have been.

But it's clearly a writing system. Is the Ryukyuan phenomenon clearly
one?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...