--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
wrote:

> Jonathon Blake wrote:
> >
> > All:
> >
> > Since Peter and Michael are hashing out definitions.
> >
> > Under which definition would a /consonant/vowel/consonant writing
> > system fall, if a final consonant was a diacritic mark?
> >
> > xan
>
> Do you have something in mind, or are you just posing

hypotheticals?

I get the impression that the old Lanna script did something like
that. That's based on Unicode proposal N013 - see
http://www.evertype.com/standards/tai/n1013-lanna.pdf and
http://www.evertype.com/standards/tai/lanna-analysis.pdf .

Having just taken a look at Tai Le, for which I'm not sure whether
the inherent vowel is what's recorded as /a:/ or what's recorded
as /a/, I have to say that is an example of it not being a very
useful distinction. Tai Le is, sensibly in my opinion, 'encoded as
an alphabet', and as the vowels always follow the consonants, I
think that it is very sensible to regard it as a proper alphabet,
even though it satisfies the requirements of an abugida.

Richard.