--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Nicholas Bodley" <nbodley@...> wrote:

> 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.

Definitely not the kanas! They're the source of the idea of moraic
scripts.

It has been conceded that the Yi syllabary is a syllabary. I think
Linear B is also a true syllabary.

Richard.