Devanagari LTR, Question etc. (was: Scripts)

On Sun, 7 Jul 2002 16:03:48 -0700 Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
writes:
> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >Yup, many years beforehand.
> Ahh, well, there you go :). Since Hebrew letters open towards the
> left,
> and a lot of Devanagari letters do also, i can see where one might
> think it would go right to left :).
> It seems though that like Brahmi, Devanagari was always written left
> to
> right. With brahmi, there are a few examples of it running right to
> left,
> but the vast majority are left to right. WIth things like direction,
> it
> seems to me scripts are conservative, so it's no surprise to me
> Devanagari kept the left to right orientation.
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Ah.  That makes sense.  Those letters that look like triangles especially
mess me up :-P .
By the way, talking about linguistic features of India, does anyone
happen to know how to say "father!" (vocative case, if such exists) in
Sanskrit?


-Stephen (Steg)
 "There is darkness all around us;
  but if darkness *is*, and the darkness is of the forest,
  then the darkness must be good."
     ~ song of the BaMbuti in troubled times