On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 22:45:38 -0400, suzmccarth <suzmccarth@...>
wrote:

> At the rate we are going no system will be a syllabary and it will fall
> into disuse.

Golly. Even the kanas in Japanese? In my dilettante's experience, they are
very illustrative of what a syllabary is like.

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