Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 12, 2003, 15:54 |
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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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