At 03:15 +0000 2004-07-11, suzmccarth wrote:

>There is also a sharp contrast between how Ethiopic and Indic
>scripts are coded.

So?

>Ethiopic is coded as a syllabary much like Cree with the first
>column of characters representing CV syllables.

Some people think that Cree is an abugida as well.
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