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Re: [neographies] New, yet unnamed experimental script

From:B. Garcia <madyaas@...>
Date:Thursday, March 24, 2005, 21:06
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:34:09 +0100, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:

> > Very nice! I suppose it is no coincidence that it reminds me > of South Indian scripts. But why are there two signs for /e/? > Is one of them /E/ or /@/? It seems very popular in con-abugidas > to have a carrier-letter for initial vowels, whereas most Indian > scripts have in principle one letter for each vowel (*) in > initial position -- the main exception is Tibetan which actually > has a carrier-letter as well as a letter for /?/.
Thai also has a "silent" letter which from what I recall is used to display vowels. -- Inu payangyara unamey ati tal amariey ka sey, payangyara kria? Yanaysatra sonataya atan inu jumoey ati atan matawsara jumoey ati.

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Tim May <butsuri@...>Abugida vowel-carriers (was: experimental script)