Richard Wordingham wrote:

>
> --- 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.

Does a stand-alone letter represent Ca(:) or C?

The vowel-letter following the consonant seems to be important to Bill
Bright's "alphasyllabary," since he claims that hPags pa (where
vowel-letters only follow their consonants) isn't an alphasyllabary, but
of course it is an abugida.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...