Considering the amount of interest here in Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, I hope that interested people are aware of this Web page; to me, it looked ...
... The first edition of Jensen is 1938. (I've never seen it.) And, as I discuss at length in IOS 20 (2002 [1999]), it was Taylor who first, AFAICT, introduced...
... See the publications of Konrad Tuchscherer. ... "It seems"? Do you not know David Dalby's articles? See Singler's bibliography in WWS. How did Taylor, let...
... What is "yat," and which round of abolitions was it abolished in? Peter the Great's? 18th-19th-c. usage? the Soviet reform? Russian has a lot fewer letters...
... Or, for that matter, than English, where both aspiration and tenseness are the significant features. b d g are often scarcely or not voiced at all. -- ...
... It's pretty likely that they do, considering who this list goes to. ... The "another" pretty much rules out anything but an _alphabet_ as what is...
... According to Konrad Tuchscherer, Cherokee was very well known and probably served as a stimulus for the invention of Vai script in Liberia, well before...
... Mr. Walker -- who I understand is called Bill -- was writing decades before the distinction was introduced. I suppose it's an example of what suz is...
... Did you find a discussion by Hockett of their orthography somewhere? If so, it would predate the 1951 lecture that I published in WLL in 2003. -- Peter T....
... Although, (stretched out with sinuous intonation), if the language has no consonant clusters, the learner would never need to learn to divide them. But,...
... Works fine for me, both last night and this morning. Maybe there is an issue with your browser or network connection. But the URL definitely works. Best, ...
... I actually saw a copy of Taylor for sale on the internet but when I enquired they said they couldn't find it. Too bad. It isn't in our library but Jensen...
... Thanks. I don't know this. ... A rhetorical use of the word seems. ... No, Suppress use of syllabics. If you believe that the alphabet is the most advanced...
... I am sure that the distinction was always evident. One would have to be blind not to notice that Cherokee was unanalysable and Cree and Potawatomi were...
... It's just a Wikipedia mirror. The original page is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Aboriginal_Syllabics Hope this helps. *Muke! -- website:...
... I'm far from qualified to comment on its accuracy and ... It pretty much reflects what I know. Quite detailed. Under 'current usgae' there is an...
... of the ... four ... which I ... Williams -- ... volumes of ... amused ... any ... me. Unfortuanately I don't know any more than that he refers to it when ...
... Apparently it is at the UBC library listed as the following. Manuscripts, inscriptions and muniments, oriental, classical, medieval and modern, described,...
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:41:57 -0400, Peter T. Daniels ... Definite: Capital letter yat: U+0462 Small letter yat: U+0463 Discontinued (in Russia) after the 1917...
... He says he's a qalam lurker, and he hasn't been returning phone calls since February. ... Does he believe the alphabet is the most advanced? BTW (apropos...
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... I haven't seen a copy of Taylor recently to check - there isn't one in the library. However, Williams seems to thinks so. ... 2000); and ... notated ... ...
... since he ... the Latin ... And as I remarked earlier, the page on Potawatomi at http://www.rosettaproject.org/live gives examples of CVC spellings for ...
... is ... Do you know that he does _not_ say anything to indicate this? I would be interested. ... notated ... the ... that the ... I don't have access to a...
... Do you remember the price? I make do with a photocopy of Columbia's 1899 ed. It seems like it would have been a sure bet for a Dover reprint, but they...
... Muke, thank you! Since posting that, I've discovered several more Wikipedia mirrors or copies. One, concerned with old Cyrillic retters, deleted a number...
... "More phonemic" makes no sense. If every consonant phoneme had a row, and every vowel phoneme had a column (or a column plus a diacritic), there was no...
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