Michael Everson wrote:

>
> At 16:26 -0400 2004-06-02, cowan@... wrote:
>
> >Cree can be seen as an abugida as well, although the vowel signs and
> >the virama are encoded using size and orientation changes rather
> >than diacritics (Indic scripts) or incorporated strokes (Ethiopic).
>
> I think this is an over-clever stretch.

I think the classification doesn't really apply, because it's a
"sophisticated grammatogeny." Remember, not every script has to fit
exactly into one of my types.

> >Does anyone know the language -- I believe it is a North American one -- in
> >which syllabograms that look like ligatured North American English handwriting
> >are used?
>
> Alaskan. I have a book on it. Indeed I suppose it is *the* book on
> it. Die Alaska-Schrift und ihre schriftgeschichtliche Bedeutung, by
> Alfred Schmidt (Marburg: Simons Verlag, 1951). My copy used to be
> owned by an A. F. Sjoberg at the University of Texas.

I think that's not Åke Sjöberg, the Sumerologist of Penn and Uppsala,
but Anne(?) Sjoberg, whose name I very occasionally see in a
bibliography, always confusingly.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...