From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 3208
Date: 2004-07-17
>(Do you begin, Michael, to understand my frustration?)
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
> wrote:
> > suzmccarth wrote:
>
> > By Punjabi you presumably mean the Gurmukhi script, which does an
> > interesting thing with its vowel notation, bringing it some distance
> > from the Brahmi paradigm.
>
> Yes, Gurmukhi. I also want to assure Michael that I am not trying to
> *equate* Gurmukhi and Ethiopic. However, I uderstand that Peter has
> classified them both as abugidas. I am just wondering what this
> comparison is based on.
> > I don't know whether Sikh children are taught with grids ofAnd Michael had exactly the opposite reaction.
> > syllables or not.
>
> Somehow I duobt it. I was taught to decode Punjabi without one. I
> hope to be working with a teacher of Punjabi in September.
> The internet has many, many examples of the Tamil syllable chart butAnd this is not a non sequitur because ...?
> I can't find one for Punjabi.
>
> Once again, I believe that another typology of scripts for
> psycholinguistics is needed.