Marco Cimarosti writes:
> But, after Tom Emerson's message, it seems clear that it is a phonetic
> script. (BTW, can everybody else load <http://www2.ttcn.ne.jp/~orie/>? It
> doesn't work for me).
Nushu script is predominently syllabic, though it does have some
glyphs that are logographic in nature. It also has some glyphs which
serve purely grammatical roles.
BTW, of the 1500+ glyphs I mentioned earlier, there are around 750
distinct graphs (ignoring variants) representing around 430 syllables
of the 1300+ available in the topolect. Chiang attributes this
difference to the limited subject matter that women use nushu for.
-- Tom Emerson Basis Technology Corp. Sr. Sinostringologist http://www.basistech.com "Beware the lollipop of mediocrity: lick it once and you suck forever"
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