Re: ~n/.n

Hello Bhante,

> Can you please give your *modern* sources? [...]
> Regarding -pa.nhi- in the Siyam Nikaya MSS. These are not modern, they
> are about 200-250 years old.

Sorry if there was some confusion, I was writing "modern vernacular
Sinhalese" just to be clear that I did not mean Pali/Prakrit.  Perhaps
I should have said "non-ancient Sinhalese"; for the purposes of the
above, I would include 200-250 year old Sinhalese as "modern
vernacular" insomuch as the orthographic influlence proposed is
concerned.

> Is there a confusion between .nh and ~nh in
> Indochinese scripts?

Not that I know of --although Burmese "~nh" is an exceedingly peculiar glyph.

E.M.