>Hiragana (and katakana) assume certain things about the syllabic structure,
>specifically that syllables are of the form [C] V [C], where the trailing
>consonant (if any) must be "n".
Yes, but, kana _has_ been used even natively in comics and so forth, to end
words with other consonants (i.e., eliding the last vowel) for example:
インスタントッ・スープッ
The biggest problem with using kana for a wide variety of languages, aside
from having a severely limited number of consonants & vowels even with
extension, is that it doesn't express adjacent non-identical consonants at
all.
Kana should be quite adequate for some other languages... Hawaiian? Oh,
hmmm, well, except for that darned L/R distinction which kana doesn't have...
Uh... Never mind...
Rick
