Re: Terms "constructed script", "invented script" (was: FW: Re: Shavian)

From: DougEwell2@cs.com
Date: Sat Jul 07 2001 - 14:05:29 EDT


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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