Re: Derivation of Term Abugida

Peter T. Daniels wrote: 

       OK.  One more thing.  How do you pronounce abjad and
abugida in English?  I say ab'jad and abugi'da.

I pronounce them as English words. If you put your stress-mark _after_
the stressed syllable, dictionary-wise, then you have them correct; if
you put it _before_ the stressed syllable, phonetician-wise, then you're
making them very foreign-looking.

I put the stress mark after the stressed syllable, so I had it right. I pronounce the vowels as in Spanish. abjad, not æbjæd.

Dennis

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