Richard Wordingham wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Whether the symbols for open syllables are seen as atomic or as
> consonant sign plus vowel/silence sign. Not everyone will have the
> same perception.

The former is a "syllabary," not an "alphasyllabary."

_No_ syllabary can be "seen as" an abugida, because the symbols are
atomic.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...