From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 3374
Date: 2004-08-05
> At 06:17 PM 8/3/2004, "Richard Wordingham"possible?
> <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
> >"suzmccarth" <suzmccarth@...> wrote:
> > > How about o + k + u = k + ou ?
> > > This would then display properly as o + k + u. Is this
> >mean
> >I don't see this combination on the Tamil unicode page. Do you
> >equivalent to
> >visual <vowel sign e> + <k> + <aa> => stored <k> + <o>,
> >stored <k> + <vowel sign e> + <aa>?No. It is TAMIL VOWEL SIGN O that decomposes to TAMIL VOWEL SIGN E
>
> Do you mean in the last line "<k> + <vowel sign au>"?
> >In Thai, visual and stored <sara e> + <k> + <sara aa> isyou
> >pronounced /kau/ and seems to correspond historically. Other
> >possibly relevant groups are
>
> Unfortunately, this depends on which set of Indic scripts
> prefer to trace "pure" lineage to... northern or southern...transcribed
>
> ><sara e> + <k> + <mai han-akat> = /ke?/
> ><sara ae> + <k> + <mai han-akat> = /kE?/ (low-mid front vowel,
> ><ae>)Drat! I thought I'd checked the chart. When I learnt the name, I
>
> It's not actualy <mai han-akat>, but <sara a> that combines with
> <sara e> and <sara ae> to shorten them.
> ><sara e> + <k> + <ii> + <y> = /kia/...
> For the diphthongs, there is no large issue, excepting for sortingtraditionally,
> issues... the will all be sorted with <sara e>, as done
> rather than phonemically, which seems to be a large trendnowadays...
> ><character o ang> is a glottal stop, but it also serves (materlectionis
> >in an abugida?) for the open-low back rounded vowel (/O/).I understand that CHARACTER O ANG derives from the independent VOWEL
> urm.. wouldn't <character o ang> just be a conflation of two
> possible functions, which are often represented by different
> characters in other systems?