What about the Hocak (Winnebago) syllabary? Does that count as a syllabary?
Seems to have evolved from Roman script handwriting. The one used by
Blowsnake in Susmans analysis. (see Willard Walker "Anthropological
Linguistics, Vol.16 No.8). Or the Masquakie syllabary reproduced in the
same volume.

Please confirm that the Potawatomi syllabary at this URL is in error as you
say. Hocket seems to have split the graphemes up into their constituent
parts. Is that the way the Potawatomi viewed it, or did they actually view
their writing as a syllabary as Willard Walker implies in "Native American
Writing Systems" Chap.7 of Lanaguages in the USA?

b.regs,

Jason Glavy


-----Original Message-----
From: qalam@yahoogroups.com [mailto:qalam@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Peter
T. Daniels
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 8:47 PM
To: qalam@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Neosyllabaries


suzmccarth wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
> wrote:
> > When has a syllabary ever evolved from an alphabet?
>
> The Potawatomi syllabary? :)
>
>

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

Bad URL

What is The Potawatomi syllabary?

If there were such a thing, Hockett would have known about it, since he
described Potawatomi for his dissertation in 1938.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...



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