Re: Interlinears

Quoting Tristan McLeay <conlang@...>:

> Paul Bennett wrote:
> > On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 00:14:13 -0500, Tristan McLeay
> > <conlang@...> wrote:
> >
> >> BEWARE! Unicode (UTF-8) characters lurk within!
> >>
> >>> Where's all the outrage from SEA about this?
> >>
> >>
> >> SEA?
> >
> >
> > South East Asia. All them pesky countries that actually *use* furigana
> > /  ruby on a presumably often enough basis for it to be part of the
> > HTML  standard for the last 4 years (which is a long time in HTML years).
>
> I dunno *they'd* do much with it. AFAIK, all South East Asian languages
> use the Latin alphabet, apart from remote outposts of Chinese (like
> Malaysian Chinese). Eastern Asia, on the other hand ... :)
Khmer, Burman, and Thai are all written in Indic-derived abugidas. The Burman
script is also used to write Mon and varius Karen languages. Some other
minority languages in the area have their own abugidas, notably Cham, which
also has Latin and Arabic orthographies.