Re: Betreft: Re: Virama (was: New and Improved Script....)

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>In Tibetan, where it is called _tseg_ and has a somewhat different
>function, the viraama is simply a dot after the syllable at the height of
>the top line of the letters.  I guess you could use something much like a
>Roman period, given that period in Indic scripts is a vertical line | --
>called _da.n.da_ 'stick' in Sanskrit and _shad_ [S_jE:] in Tibetan.
Well, ther three punctuation marks in the Ranaka Scripts (it's final
name), are:  comma - . , exclamation mark - :, and full stop ||. The
single line would be good, because I can see writers writing that (perhaps
a bit higher than the other glyphs to distinguish it ), instead of the top
bar of the "proper" virama.
>
>BTW I found that traditional Malayalam script is essentially the same as
>Grantha.  HTH!
Hmm, i should check that out.Tamil seems to look very similar too, and it
even uses some grantha characters for some sounds.
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