Re: Virama (was: New and Improved Script....)
| From: | Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 17, 2000, 3:42 |
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In a message dated 3/16/2000 2:55:48 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM writes:
<< The virama is a diacritic which when attached to a consonant "kills"
the vowel, so that the consonant letter "k" now represents simply /k/. >>
Since most of my knowledge of Indic and Indic-based scripts comes from the
Dutch literature on Indonesia, I've adopted the Dutch term for my own use--
dooder, which also means 'killer' I think. What was the actual meaning of
_virama_?