RE: [OT] ANN: Site about scripts

From: Hietaniemi Jarkko (NRC/Boston) (jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com)
Date: Wed Oct 10 2001 - 12:53:58 EDT


> Tengwar has vowel diacritics that seem to follow temporal order, so it
> may be that it should be an abugida rather than an alphasyllabary, but
> it is not an abjad. I am not too sure of the distinction between
> abugida and alphasyllabary, to be honest. Help on this would be
> welcome.

Here's something:

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/4948/tengwar/

| and Cirth would be Alphabet (like Runic).

> Cirth is already described as an alphabet, so I am not sure what you
> mean.

Ooops, sorry, missed that.



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