--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Michael Everson <everson@...> wrote:

> At 00:30 +0000 2005-08-19, suzmccarth wrote:
> >I had forgotten that I have an article by K. Tuchscherer with me and
> >it has a Vai passage from 1834 - the earliest extant manuscript in
> >Vai.
>
> Which article is this?

"Cherokee and West Africa", it is in your bibliography, page 440
figure 2.

The "earliest extant manuscript in an indigenous script from sub-
Saharan Africa."

I also wanted to ask why sorting by column was considered
the "inherent" sort order for Vai. I do see that once all the rows are
completed there are similarities down the columns, but I wondered if
there was any 'native speaker' reason for columns being the inherent
sort order. Anyway, just interested - I think Cherokee may have also
optionally used columns - I forget the details.

Suzanne

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