John Jenkins scripsit:
> The first Ethiopic proposal for Unicode did this, [...]
> UCAS, and Linear B have no significant regular glyphic
> features to use as the basis for a sub-syllabic encoding.
Ethiopic and UCAS could easily have been done abugida-style with
just mandatory ligatures to generate the appropriate glyphs, not
even full Indic shaping.
I think the important factor was the way the users thought of the
characters -- as syllabograms.
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