Alternatives to alphabet?

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You could do the same thing with English or any other language.  Try it with that script.  That doesn't mean that the consonant-vowel distinction in English or other languages is not meaningful.

The vowel-consonant distinction is meaningful in English and other languages.

That does not mean glyphs that look like vowels in the VMS are vowels and yet I see a very high proportion of people assuming they are. It could be an abjad, with some of the consonants shaped like vowels. It could be digits, with some of them shaped like vowels. The vowel shapes could be nulls or modifiers rather than vowels.


It's very important, in analyzing the text, to get away from the idea that vowel shapes are vowels until there is other evidence to confirm that they are.