>Then it's an abugida.
> 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.