Re: Unicode definitions of script types

John Cowan wrote:

>
> suzmccarth scripsit:
>
> > Anyone in any language community can check and see what their own
> > language has been called and how it has been encoded. So if the
> > consensus has been that Cree is a syllabary then most if not all
> > Cree would expect to see Cree listed as such, not as an abugida.
>
> It can be viewed as either one.

Neither is particularly apt, since it's the product of "sophisticated
grammatogeny" -- it was devised by a scholar (of sorts) on the basis of
explicit analysis and familiarity with the tools of phonetics (as
available at the time).
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...