ON WRITING SYLLABLES: THREE EPISODES OF SCRIPT TRANSFER

Abstract

grammatim @ att.net Ten years after the initial presentation on the syllabic origin of writing, we may return to the writing of syllables, with examples from the Semitic-derived scripts of Asia. Of special interest are the develop-ment from the Aramaic abjad (consonantary) to the Indie abugida ('syllabary ' with vowel inherent in the basic symbol), the migration of consonant symbols from a syllable to an adjacent aksara in Indie and the refinement of this practice in Tibetan, and the Korean decomposi-tion and recognition of the syllable in light of Chinese grammatical the-ory. 1. The syllabic origin of writing In returning to syllables ten years after the syllabic origin of writing was an-nounced at the Milwaukee Symposium on Linguistics and Literacy (Daniels 1992b), * I would like to take up three episodes of 'script transfer ' that involve writing syllables. 1 I investigate the diversification of script types across Asia —

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