--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Marco Cimarosti <marco.cimarosti@...>
wrote:

> In a similar bi-dimensional framework, you can place Chinese and

Cherokee on

> the same "coordinate" on the sound axis (i.e.: they are

both "syllabaries"):

> what makes them different is that they have a different "degree of
> ideographicity" on the meaning axis.
>
> (OK, that's was just my layman's two pence. Now I can sit in my

atomic

> shelter and wait for Prof. Daniels' explosion. :-)

This is exactly what I wrote and published in 1996.

I mentioned it a few times but was giving up from lack of response.
I said that there is a logographic - phonographic continuum *and* a
phoneme - syllable continuum.

Suzanne McCarthy