--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Jason Glavy" <jglavy@...> wrote:

>
> 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.

I think greater heed should have been paid to Suzanne's smilie. They
look like PR jobs to me:

'You can't handle a paleface alphabet? OK, try a syllabary. That's
the Native American thing!'

Perhaps the word alphabet is also avoided because of the elimination
of phonetic information, most obviously the removal of voicing
contrast from the script.

Nothing I can find about them (including the Fox syllabary) persuades
me we are actually dealing with a syllabary of any sort. Perhaps
someone can find handwriting that makes them into syllabaries. Some
of the stuff is distinctly alphabetic - CVC!

Richard.