Michael Everson wrote:

>
> At 16:25 -0400 2005-08-19, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> >Sequoyah's order for Cherokee is quite random
> >(see WWS), likely reflecting the order he
> >happened to invent the symbols in. The standard
> >syllabary chart (does it go back to Samuel
> >Worcester?) is simply in the order of the roman
> >alphabet, consonants vertical, vowels horizontal.
>
> I believe the ordering goes back to Worcester. I
> very recently acquired an early Cherokee printing
> which details the origin of the script (it's from
> a journal of education); I will make this text
> available soon.
>
> That many Vai syllabary tables follow the order
> of the Latin alphabet is an example of Western
> laziness, I suppose. The section on ordering on
> page 5 of the Vai proposal document details our
> analysis of the script and why we preferred the
> "vertical" arrangement as reflecting the real
> structure of Mòmòlu Duwalu Bukèlè's script.

The "real structure"? Did he present the symbols in a non-random order?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...