--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Chew <patchew@...> wrote:

> At 11:21 AM 8/6/2004, "Richard Wordingham"
> <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
> Lanna and old Lue (and old Lao) have a set of

coda "diacritics"

> that allow for CVC chucnks, BUT, sometimes the "diacritics" are

part of the

> following syllable as well (and not in the sense of the geminate

values as

> found in Std Thai Pali-Sanskrit renditions)...

Pray tell me more. Where can I find an account?

> Tai Le "inherent" vowel is /a/, not /a:/...

That's what I would have expected, but the examples in Table 10-9 of
the Unicode Standard (
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch10.pdf ) would then
implied /ka/, which is not possible in Tai Le (
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/tai/TaiDehong/phonology.htm ) (The error
in the first /ki/ is known by Unicode.) Presumably, then, the
inherent vowel is /a:/ in open syllables and /a/ in closed syllables.

Richard.