At 12:09 +0000 2005-08-22, Richard Wordingham wrote:

>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.

That would be a mistaken analysis. The diacritics are subsequent
additions to the basic system.

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

There is no systematic application of diacritics in Vai.
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