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.
>
>It has 223 syllables and uses about 60 symbols.

Since you've already analyzed it, would you mind typing in the text
in Latin transliteration as you read it? I will then be happy to
check it by trying to type it in modern syllables using my draft
keyboard layout. It would be interesting to see what the results are.
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com