Re: The Language Code

Christophe wrote:
> No, Devanagari is an abugida, i.e. an alphabet where the consonant letters
> have a default vowel which can be overriden by vowel diacritics, and which
> typically renders consonant clusters through complex ligatures. This is
> quite different from a syllabary.
>
...which could have, theoretically, as many distinct symbols as there are
possible syllables in the language. Though it seems most of them evolve into
a CV pattern, or CV with some CCV and VC for frequent clusters and codas.