Re: Unicode Tibetan (Was: syllable level encoding in unicode)

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
wrote:

> Michael Everson wrote:
> >
> > At 17:14 -0400 2004-06-02, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> >
> > > > Now I am really puzzled since Cree would have a similar

syllable

> > >> structure <ma-si-na-hi-ka-n> simple CV <a-s-pi-ta-s-ko-pi-so-

n> and

> > >> CV with final /s/ and final /n/ using a "final". The system

is

> > >> composed of syllabics for open syllables and finals (plus a

couple of

> > >> featural signs not always used)They certainly call their

system

> > >> syllabic even though Naskapi has a different structure in the

spoken

> > >> language.


> > >? What's what people call their system got to do with what it

encodes?

> > >"Cree syllabics" has characters for each (C)V syllable, plus

final

> > >consonants. From your two examples, it seems that Cree has

syllables CV,

> > >VC, and CVC.
> >
> > No reason a-spi-ta-sko-pi-so-n couldn't be analyzed with CCVs

though

>
> No reason but typology. And perhaps comparative Algonquian. I don't
> think there are word-intial sC's, but it's been a very long time

since

> my Algonquian seminar with Hockett.

There are no word initial s(C) syllables and my example <a-s-pi-ta-s-
ko-pi-so-n> with breaks represents how it is encoded into syllabic
units as V or CV syllables with syllable final s and word final n
encoded by superscript characters representing a consonant only.

It just seems to me that Tamil with CV and final CV-C pattern could
also be encoded with a syllabary.

> --
> Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...