Re: [OT] ANN: Site about scripts

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sat Oct 13 2001 - 21:46:31 EDT


At 15:40 -0700 2001-10-11, Kenneth Whistler wrote:

>The Canadian aboriginal syllabics, derived from a shorthand
>system,

Which one? What are the common elements? (I have never checked this myself.)

>also should be analyzed as a featural syllabary, in
>my opinion.

I concur.

I've no idea if it will be of interest, but I have an old
(1998-01-03) paper, "Features of the world's scripts" at
http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso15924/document/n02.html. In that
contribution I used the following terms: alphabetic, consonantal
(i.e. abjad), syllabic (which included the abugidas and the true
syllabaries), ideographic, and mixed (cuneiform and hieroglyphic).

Perhaps I should revisit that document and update it.

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