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

> At 07:55 -0400 2005-08-20, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> The Vai script's glyphs have relations between them, where groups of
> syllables with related consonants are clustered together, within
> final-vowel classes. This is different from the structure of some
> other scripts, like Canadian Syllabics, where the glyphs
> relationships are consonant-based.

But at the finest level, one could argue that the Canadian Syllabics
are vowel-based! There are the labialisation and length diacritics,
which Unicode fuses with the base CV syllable.

The overwhelming relationship in Vai is one of irregularly applied
voicing, nasalisation and alienisation diacritics.

Richard.