Jason Glavy 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. 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?

Did you find a discussion by Hockett of their orthography somewhere? If
so, it would predate the 1951 lecture that I published in WLL in 2003.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...