Re: Burmese vowels

From: Michael Forgey (forgey@bigfoot.com)
Date: Wed Oct 14 1998 - 16:53:31 EDT


At 10:28 AM 10/14/98 -0700, you wrote:
>> This also seems quite exceptional for a Brahmic language;
>> attaching dependent vowels onto an independent vowel. Is that even allowed
>> in Unicode?
>
>Happens in Tibetan, too. There is only one independent vowel, and it takes
>various vowel signs.
>
> Rick
>

So then, it's not "illegal" to combine independent vowels with dependent
vowels; though, it is not often done?

mike
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