>And until a few years ago, "abjad" was restricted to Arabic and
> 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?