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Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit

From:Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 12, 2003, 15:54
Take a look at Tibetan. After that, you'll be relieved at how few ligatures
there are in Sanskrit.

>Interesting nonetheless. >It's rather... involved, is it not? the script, that it. After working >though >all the vowels and consonant-series, you're told that there are a few >thousand >ligatures that are used too. If that many are needed, I'd judge the memory >load of this script to be greater than the famed "5000 hanzi" needed for >reading some level of Chinese. At least the hanzi are iconic.
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Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...>