Re: French usage re syllabics

From: Chris Harvey (chris@languagegeek.com)
Date: Sun Oct 30 2005 - 20:06:55 CST

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    Ysgrifennodd William J Poser <wjposer@ldc.upenn.edu> ar y 30-10-2005 am
    17:18:

    > I'm getting ready to move and can't find my photocopy of the
    > relevant portion of Petitot's Dictionnaire Déné-Djindjié. It contains
    > a chart
    > which I think is labelled "syllabaire déné" but won't swear to it.

    The chart in Petitot’s "Dictionnaire déné-dindjié" is labelled "Alphabet
    Déné"

    In his section on "Des signes graphiques indiens", apart from "alphabet",
    he also calls the orthography "les caractères conventionnels
    monosyllabiques"

    Chris Harvey

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