suzmccarth wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "suzmccarth" <suzmccarth@...> wrote:
>
> > However, I suppose there must be some other terms available. Maybe
> >
> > 1. syllabic - Japanese(with additional morphosyllabic component),
> > - Tamil (with a segmental aspect)
> >
> > 2. morphosyllabic - Chinese
> >
> > 3. segmental - Spanish
> >
> > 4. morphosegmental - English, French
>
> Oops. I made an error here. It should have been
>
> 1. syllabic - Japanese (with morphemic or morphosyllabic component)
> - Tamil (only minimally segmental)

If you continue to refuse to recognize the huge difference between
syllabaries and abugidas, then I will have no alternative but to give
you an F in my course. Tamil and Japanese are utterly different.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...