Re: Punctuation (was: Bopomofo keyboards in Taiwan)

Richard Wordingham wrote:

> This may be a stupid question, but do the inflectional patterns of a
> language affect the native speaker's ability to see an alphasyllabary
> as an abugida? In a Semitic language like Amharic the inflected forms
> should reveal the composition of the syllable symbols. Unfortunately,
> I know little of Tamil morphology and less of Vai.

What contrast are you trying to make between alphasyllabary and abugida?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...