Re: /consonant/vowel/diacritic mark for consonant/

From: Patrick Chew
Message: 3417
Date: 2004-08-06

At 03:24 PM 8/6/2004, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...> wrote:
>Does a stand-alone letter represent Ca(:) or C?

In current Tai Le, it's more than likely <Ca>.
Older versions of Tai Le used to use a virama/pulli analogous to
what's seen in Burmese. Moder practice has done away with it, since tone
marks linearized following a syllable provide context as syllable boundaries.

cheers,
-Patrick

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