Re: Devanagari trivia (was Tengwar question)
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 17, 2007, 10:54 |
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On 17.7.2007 Shreyas Sampat wrote:
> The candra vowels aren't used in Hindi; I understand that they're in
> use for
> some other languages that use devanagari.
>
>
They are used for transcribing short e and o in languages that
have them, like English. There are other symbols for short e/o
similar to ~, which AFAIK are used to transcribe short e/o in
Dravidian languages. I dunno why there are two sets of symbols
for one function, though.
/BP 8^)>
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