Re: Origin of New Tai Lue Final Consonants

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

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

The example is now available in
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3080.pdf on p5 as Figure 1.
The bull's eyes in the Pali in Shan script are short i plus anusvara.
In Thai this is sara ue, which is traditionally viewed as sara i plus
nikkhahit (Pali niggahita).

Richard.