Dear Gunnar,
thank you. I had not thought of the Devanagari script. You give a
good explanation,
Nina.

Op 11-jan-2010, om 16:15 heeft Gunnar Gällmo het volgende geschreven:

> I don't remember anything about Sinhalese script, but I think the
> system is similar to Devanagari; there, to write "eva.m", you write
> two signs for the syllables "e" and "va", and then you just put a
> dot above the second syllable to indicate the niggahita/anusvaara.
>
> To write "evam", on the other hand, you have to write three signs
> for the syllables "e", "va" and "ma", and then put a hook (viraama)
> at the third syllable to indicate that the final "a" should be mute.
>
> So in many manuscripts, the dot for .m has been used instead of the
> more complicated sign for an m not followed by a vowel, to save
> space and work.

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