Re: Neosyllabaries

Peter T. Daniels skribis:

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> suzmccarth wrote:
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> > "Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
> > > When has a syllabary ever evolved from an alphabet?
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> > The Potawatomi syllabary? :)
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> >

http://www.potawatomilang.org/Reference/Grammar/Orthography/writingsyst.html

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> Bad URL
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> What is The Potawatomi syllabary?
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> If there were such a thing, Hockett would have known about it, since he
> described Potawatomi for his dissertation in 1938.

That URL worked for me. Anyway, it's not really a syllabary. It's just
digraphs of Latin letters laid out in a table like this:

ba be bi bo bu
ca ce ci co cu
da de di do du
ga ge gi go gu etc.

The text on the web page says it was taught as a syllabary, but as
far as writing systems go, this is not a syllabary. It's simply the Latin
alphabet.

--Ph. D.