(26-02-2019, 07:23 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.So a synthetic abjad is a language that's written with omission of vowels, and with lots of meaning that goes inside the main word. It probably uses cases, extensive conjugation, no personal pronouns etc.
Hi Koen,
as Stephen Bax said in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.:
Quote:I have to insist again and again, the difference between the script and the language is a really important one, because it could be that the underlying language is one that is known to us, but what stops us from getting there is just the script that's lying above it. And this is an element of the research which many people just don't seem to get. Even in recent discussions on the internet you get people confusing the issues of the script and language.
An abjad is a kind of script, not a kind of language. The fact that "meaning goes inside the main word" is a feature of the language, but writing or omitting vowels is a feature of the script.