Re[2]: [tied] *es- or *h1es- ?

At 4:00:13 AM on Sunday, October 9, 2005, P&G wrote:

>> the Gurmukhi script (the script normally used for
>> Panjabi, another IE language), has a similar 3-way split
>> in its vowel-holder consonant letters.

> I don't think you can mean Panjabi, which like Sanskrit,
> has vowel letters used when a word or syllable begins with
> a vowel.

I expect that he does mean the Gurmukhi script: for initial
vowels it has three vowel-bearers, one used with diacritics
for the (non-low) back vowels [o], [U], and [u], one used
with the low vowels [&], [A], [æ], and [O], and one used
with the (non-low) front vowels [I], [i], and [e]. See
Harjeet Singh Gill, 'The Gurmukhi Script', in _The World's
Writing Systems_, Peter T. Daniels & William Bright, eds.,
OUP 1996.

Brian