Philip Newton wrote:

>
> On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 18:26:48 -0400, Peter T. Daniels
> <grammatim@...> wrote:
> > Jonathon Blake wrote:
> > >
> > > It came up in a discussion for a proposed writing system for TokiPona.
> >
> > And what, pray tell, is TokiPona?
>
> Toki Pona is a constructed language with a phonology roughly
> comparable to Japanese's: syllables are V (only word-initially), CV,
> or CVn (is that the right notation? CVC is possible, but only if the
> last C is the sound /n/). Some people have proposed various
> alternative writing systems to the Latin alphabet which is most
> commonly used for it, partly because of the regular syllable
> structure.

I don't waste time on conlangs when they invade sci.lang, and I'm
certainly not going to waste time on them here.

You can do whatever you want with a sophisticated grammatogeny, and it
has no bearing whatsoever on the typology or on the history of writing.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...