Re: Just wondering

From: Michael Everson
Message: 1174
Date: 2003-01-23

At 10:00 -0500 2003-01-23, John Cowan wrote:

>Are there any abugidas that don't have explicit or implicit virama
>other than Buginese?

Brahmi for a start. Some of the Philippine scripts. And in the one
Buginese font I've ever seen the designer innovated a killer (a
nonspacing line below). Khmer's VIRIAM has taken on another meaning,
and they say they have no virama.

Or did you mean something other than a visible one?
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com

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