virama Re: Just wondering

Michael Everson wrote:

>
> 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.

It had no occasion for one, since there aren't any final consonants in
Prakrit (so Masica, Salomon). It got one when they started writing
Sanskrit.

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?

Yes, we have no viramas ...
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...