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Yeah, syllabaries are absolutely the norm, and usual end state for a script, from Japan to Ireland. The Greek innovation of splitting syllables into diphthongs
by ncmncm 4y ago
Yeah, syllabaries are absolutely the norm, and usual end state for a script, from Japan to Ireland. The Greek innovation of splitting syllables into diphthongs was revolutionary.
Still, one syllabary had to be first.
Logograms evaporate when you want to write foreign names and words.
- biorach 4y ago> syllabaries are absolutely the norm, and usual end state for a script This is entirely unsupported by evidence. There are a varieties of approaches to writing systems around the world - syllabaries are only one. > Japan to Ireland Japan, yes. Ireland, no - there is no record of a syllabary in use there.
- ncmncm 4y agoWell, OK. The world is anyway lousy with syllabaries and abjads, many of which started life as logograms. And, it is attractive to think there was a first, although it is easy to imagine a pair of neighboring scripts both evolving to syllabaries simultaneously.