>From: Roger Mills <romilly@...>
>Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 23:58:06 -0500
>
Re: Burmese
>Indeed. ooo96cooccccooo6ccoo
>
>Old Javanese and Balinese, OTOH, evidently from a slightly different
>tradition, look like mmmmnnnnnuuuuummmmmnnuuuu. Of course I'm
>generalizing.
>:-)
LOLBT That is *SO* pseudo-true! LOLBTA
>
>Batak, Rejang and Bugis/Makassar are more angular,
v<^>>vv^>^^<
*g*
Adam
but if you see a table of
>all Indonesian and Indian scripts, you can see the relationships. Batak
>and
>Rejang, I think, were incised into bamboo; Javanese and Balinese on palm
>strips (copper plates for permanent things like land grants and temple
>endowments). The Jav. word _lontar_ is generic for these old "books" as
>well
>as for the palm tree, and is from **ron tal 'leaf (of) tal (palm)', which
>is
>an Indic word ta:la ~modern tal. The lontar palm in Indonesia is Borassus
>flabellifer (spelling not guaranteed).
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