Re: Second invention of the alphabet?

John Cowan wrote:

>
> Does the line of scripts leading to Mongolian and Manchu, which descend
> from an abjad but which have become fully alphabetic, constitute an
> independent invention of the alphabetic principle, or was stimulus
> diffusion from Greek operating?

"Fully alphabetic"? That's not what I get from Kara in WWS, or Li's
(Lee's) recent textbook on Manchu writing (Hawaii).

Yiddish uses an alphabet, based on German, but with Hebrew shapes.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...