Jason Glavy wrote:

>
> Would you be so kind as to indicate what sources you are consulting that
> allowed you to arrive at your conclusion regarding the writing systems
> below? I frankly am content with referring to them simply as writing
> systems, and let it go at that, but Walker refers to them as syllabaries.
> Still, in accordance with The World's Writing Systems, the term syllabary
> would be not correctly describe the Fox,Kickapoo, Potawatomi, or Hocak
> scripts, as there ARE "systematic graphic similarit(ies) between the
> characters of phonetically similar syllables." So from this definition
> Mr.Daniels is correct, and as a result, does this make Willard Walker's use
> of the term Syllabary incorrect?

Mr. Walker -- who I understand is called Bill -- was writing decades
before the distinction was introduced.

I suppose it's an example of what suz is looking for, no?

> In the Blowsnake manuscript, /a/ is inherent, and marks indicating other
> vowels are appended to the consonant, so further to WWS, would such a script
> fit closer to an abugida? Prof. Daniels, can you enlighten me further?

Well, I don't know what the Blowsnake ms. is, but on the basis of those
three words, then it's an abugida.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...