Michael Everson wrote:

>
> At 01:34 +0100 2004-08-06, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
>
> >Then we need a solid definition of what a letter is. And to preempt
> >we will also need solid definitions of what a diacritic is.
>
> Is this really a problem?

Remember, I forgot to define "diacritic" in WWS. The vowel doohickeys in
abugidas aren't diacritics because they don't just modify a basic sound
(like the prototypical examples in Czech and French and German).
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...