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

> suzmccarth wrote:
>
> > A syllable would be the lowest level of concrete audible

production

> > and perception, cognitively speaking.
>
> Yes.
>
> > Visual and audible only come together at the syllable level for

the

> > unitiated in Tamil and Cree.
>
> Why doesn't that apply to every other Indic script and Ethiopic?

'only at the syllable level' NOT 'only Tamil and Cree' Sometimes I
just mention the scripts I have been using most recently and know
best. I would like to hear a more about input and other aspects of
reading and writing in Ethiopic.

Somehow Indic languages seem a little different to Tamil but I
haven't watched a Punjabi speaker trying to keyboard Unicode Punjabi
yet - only the legacy fonts so far. unicode Punjabi seems fine to
me - but I am tainted, cognitively, by my roman alphabetic
upbringing.

Suzanne

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