John Cowan wrote:

>
> suzmccarth scripsit:
>
> > This seems to me to be the only logical answer. I can't think why
> > else Tamil couldn't have precomposed characters for aksharas since
> > Canadian Syllabics works for 3 languages with fairly different
> > syllable structure, Western Cree, Naskapi and Inuit.
>
> Well, not using the abugida model for the Indic scripts would have
> gobbled up immense numbers of codepoints, since CV and CCV and even
> CCCV are possible in certain languages. (No Indic script is used for
> only one language.)

Unless you simply mean Sanskrit, I'm wondering what additional languages
are written with

Gujarati
Gurmukhi
Kannada
Malayalam
Sinhala
Telugu
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...