>"Roger Mills" <romilly@...> likis:
> I have a question: when was the form of the letter "a" changed???? In my
> old Sanskrit primer (orig. publ. in 1800s, nth. ed. of 1946) it has a
> completely different shape, which I'm sure I've also seen in photos of
> things Indian.
>
> Something like (hopefully!)----
> ____________
> __| |
> / \ __|
> / | |
> |
> |
This form was used till the 1950s-60s, till typewriter and all those old
typing things were used. Not after that. At that time, some letters took new
forms.
Nikhil