2003-01-23 10:17:17, Michael Everson <everson@...>
wrote:

>At 10:00 -0500 2003-01-23, John Cowan wrote:
>
>>Are there any abugidas that don't have explicit or implicit

virama

Although I do hope to obtain a copy of WWS, in the meantime,
it might be helpful to those of us (anyone else?) who are
here to learn (aren't we all?)... to have a concise glossary
of such terms as one finds in The Unicode Standard book;
specifically, terms in the general category of virama,
candrabindu, tatweel, etc.

This glossary could placed in the nice Qalam online reference
section.

While browsing in Schoenhof's book store*, I met a linguist
who told me what at candrabindu is, and corrected my
pronunciation. ("chandrabindu" is apparently correct.) We had
a lovely time chatting.

*A splendid place; they carry books in the largest number of
languages in the Western Hemisphere, so they say. Just off
Harvard Square...

http://www.schoenhofs.com/

Nicholas Bodley ||@|| Waltham, Mass.
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