From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 4260
Date: 2005-02-23
>A thinko, rather.
> > On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:14:48 -0000, Marco Cimarosti
> > <marco.cimarosti@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > The only braille system I know of that completely violates the
> > > original French convention is Japanese. Japanese braille only has
> > > kana (making no distinction between Katakana and Hiragana). Kana
> > > letters are encoded using three dots for the leading consonant and
> > > three dot for the trailing consonant.
> >
> > Eh? Japanese syllables don't have trailing consonants, except for -n.
>
> A typo for "trailing vowel".
> > From the descriptions I've seen, in general, the three dots at the topIt would be an abugida only if one of the vowels went unnotated, so that
> > left represent the vowel, while the three at the bottom right
> > represent the consonant, so one braille cell can represent a CV
> > syllable of the kind that's typical for Japanese. Variations (such as
> > CyV and CVC:V, as well as voiced stops) are handled by additional
> > cells.
>
> Right.
>
> > > So, curiously, braille kana is actually an abjad, not a syllabary.
> >
> > I'd say it's basically a syllabary.
>
> Ooops! Another typo: chenage "abjad" into "abugida".