Re: USAGE: Abugidas
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 29, 2004, 20:50 |
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On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 04:08:38PM +0100, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> What he failed to mention was that initial vowels go on a zero consonant known
> as a "short carrier".
Only if they're short. Initial long vowels go on the "long carrier". :)
> diacritics were dropped, which would explain how one can know that **_acalma_
> or **_acalma_ wasn't intended.
Uhm, those two spellings look identical to me. What distinction did you
mean to draw?
-Mark
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