Re: Alleged Syllabaries from Alphabets

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
wrote:

> 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.

Yes, but you don't actually say whether the consonant clusters are in
CA or in PCA. You mentioned consonant clusters in CA some time last
summer and I am still waiting for an example. It is hard to carry on
a conversation at this pace.

Suzanne

(Except in this case

> Pot., since Bloomfield didn't have data on it until Hockett's
> fieldwork.)
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