Re: Neosyllabaries

Richard Wordingham wrote:

> And as I remarked earlier, the page on Potawatomi at
> http://www.rosettaproject.org/live gives examples of CVC spellings for
> monosyllables. However, there's plenty of precedent for phonetically
> CVC syllables being written as unambiguous CV, e.g. Linear B and
> Buginese IIRC.

Define unambiguous! And see any source on Linear B and/vs. Cypriote
orthography (Woodard is good on that), or WWW p. 482 on the 16 different
possible readings of <ba> in Hanunoo, given the 15 possible final
consonants and none.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...