Re: Reduced Vai Repertoire

At 22:13 -0400 2005-08-19, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> > 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?

I don't believe we have a list of how he
presented it (in chart format), but there are
clear relations between shapes within a rhyme;
that would be the internal structure. Have you
seen the Proposal document? The rationale for
preferrign the vertical arrangement is explained
there on page 5.
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