Re: Alleged Syllabaries from Alphabets

suzmccarth wrote:

>
> --- 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.

Why would I have mentioned consonant clusters in Central Algonquian some
time last summer? Did you ever ask for an example? Anyway you know Cree,
and since CVC syllables exist, and the language is highly synthetic,
there must be plenty of CVCCVCCVCCVC-style words.

I have been inquiring about the "pace" for two weeks now, but apparently
the moderator felt that inquiries about the pace were off topic.

> (Except in this case
> > Pot., since Bloomfield didn't have data on it until Hockett's
> > fieldwork.)

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