Richard Wordingham wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
> wrote:
> > Salomon accepts the Mahadevan interpretation but notes that it was an
> > aberration and was abandoned after the period dealt with in the new
> > edition of Old Tamil inscriptions. He notes one other area where the
> > abugida seems to have turned into an alphabet (where the plain akshara
> > represents C only).
>
> Is that in addition to Lao?

Non-gnomic comments are preferable.

Are you proposing a historical link between Tamil and Lao?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...