--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Nicholas Bodley" <nbodley@...> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 09:42:35 -0400, Peter T. Daniels
> <grammatim@...> wrote:
>
> > You wanna call it a kana? Fine. Then Cherokee has a kana and Cree
> > doesn't.
>
> Dilettante's query:
>
> Isn't the term "kana" restricted to Japanese?

Wasn't the term "abugida" restricted to the Ge'ez 'syllabary'?

Richard.