Michael Everson scripsit:
Ridiculous. This happened centuries ago, and it is not "why" Ethiopic was encoded as a syllabary. It was encoded as a syllabary because it is a syllabary.
Structurally it's an abugida, like Indic and UCAS.
I disagree. And I don't think Canadian Syllabics are an abugida. But let's leave this one alone, shall we?
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