Re: suttas 3-6: vowels & consonants

Jim,

like jaran said, many thanks for all your time and
work here. Pls take it as read that even if we don't
reply or thank you for each post that it's being read
and is of interest. I'll just put in one or two simple
technical qus:

--- Jim Anderson <jima@...> wrote: > Dear
group,

> The (33) consonants are: ka kha ga gha "na, ca cha
> ja jha ~na, .ta
> .tha .da .dha .na, ta tha da dha na, pa pha ba bha
> ma; ya ra la va sa
> ha .la a.m

do you have any recommendation for remembering the
order as I always (still) get in muddle when checking
in dictionaries?

Why for e.g. are the last 2 at the end in that order?

What is the symbol "na representing? Is na, a typo or
what is the comma for? also ma; - what is this?

It might be useful to repeat the use of symbols you
use as i'm still getting used to them. i find it
rather amazing that on my typewriter i had in the 70s
I had keys for various diacritics which I can't use
easily on  my computer more than 20yrs later. (sorry
for diversion).

V.interesting that these take half as long as a short
vowel- sth new to me.
>
As the list keeps me pretty busy, pls note I'm often
v.behind in reviewing here, hence my delayed comments.

Sarah

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