Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit

>"Stephen Mulraney" <ataltanie@...> likis:
> 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.
There are two forms of ligatures, early and modern. Early form is used by
old styled people, who are few in number. People today use the newer
version. It is greatly simplified. Earlier each and every possible consonant
combination was written with a different ligature. So ligatures like kkh,
ksh, kr, etc. would have different form of 'k'. But it the newer form, all
the ligatures involving 'k' (or any other letter) would have the same form
in every combination; and this form is different from the 'k' when it is not
combined with other consonants.

So, now every consonant has two forms; yes only two forms instead of
hundreds earlier. English-speaking people should be used to these, as there
are two forms of Roman letters, upper case and lower case.

For any help regarding Devanagari ask me.

Nikhil
(My mother tongue (Hindi) is written in Devanagari and I have also studied
Sanskrit for three years.)

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