Re: Alleged Syllabaries from Alphabets

suzmccarth wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...> wrote:
> > suzmccarth wrote:
> >
> > > BTW you mentioned that Central Algonkian has consonant clusters but
> > > I am not sure what you are refering to.
> >
> > You mean, you don't know the term "consonant cluster"?
> >
> > If you mean you know Central Algonquian languages (Fox, Cree, Menominee,
> > Ojibway, Potawotami) and you don't think they have clusters, I'll get
> > you some from Bloomfield's reconstruction of PCA.
>
> But would consonant clusters in PCA be relevant to an orthography
> developed for a CA langauge in the 19th century? An example would be
> great.

No, Suzanne. An article on the reconstruction of a proto-language
contains data from all the daughter languages. (Except in this case
Pot., since Bloomfield didn't have data on it until Hockett's
fieldwork.)
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...