Re: Grantha

>From: Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...>
>I've been developing a more plausible script for Saalangal, based off of
>the Grantha script of southern India. This script is the ancestor of  the
>Tamil, Kannada, and Sinhal  scripts. I've been simplifying the letter
>forms down from the rather extravagant letter forms of Grantha.
>Anyway, I
>was hoping someone out on the list may have another example of the script,
>or could give me some plausible ideas on how to create ng from the
>existing characters.
I'm looking for other sites on Grantha myself!  I'm going to e-mail the
webmaster and ask for fonts or other info.

Meanwhile, the character sets for Tamil and Malayalam (Kannada and Telugu
are 'hybrid' scripts, modeled after Grantha but with Devanagari influences
since the characters have topstrokes which came from the Dev. 'hanging
line') -- go here:

http://charts.unicode.org/

Then scroll down to Tamil, Malayalam and anything else you might be
interested in.  (I need to learn Tibetan and Thai myself.)

Problem though -- the conjunct <ks.> and <jn~> characters are not included
in Devanagari or any other Indic script.  Why I do not know, since those are
very important in all Indian languages!

Danny
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