On Wednesday 23 July 2003 12:23 am, Nikhil Sinha wrote:
> The native Kélen writing system looks at least in part to be inspired
by
> Indic ones. For example, the Kélen for 't' looks like Devanagari 'p'.
And
> then there is the line on top of the letters, present in Indic
scripts.
> Kélen 'n' looks like inverted Devanagri 'n'.
>
> This was the first thought that came to me when I saw the writing
system.
>
> Nikhil
Yes. It was inspired by Devanagari. A friend of mine is working on a
vertical version of my script which I will tell everyone about when
he's done.
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Sylvia Sotomayor
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