Re: Origin of New Tai Lue Final Consonants

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...> wrote:

> They're infuriatingly vague about where the innovations came from. I
> can't tell whether the subscript circle for final consonants is a
> complete innovation or the *regular* old method. As the regular
> method should not be vary rare, we must *presume* the former.

I now know of another script using these marks. They're used in some
Pali examples written in the (Southern) Shan script in another of
Michael Everson's informative proposals. I hope it will soon be
posted as http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3044.pdf .

Richard.