In a message dated 2001-07-07 9:30:56 Pacific Daylight Time,
jcclark@csupomona.edu writes:
> Cherokee is another syllabary that is very language-specific. And Etruscan
> was pretty much forced into an alphabet--with its long consonant clusters,
> a syllabary would have been unwieldy.
Another example is Canadian Syllabics. VERY difficult to write English using
that script.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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