Re: conjucts beginning with independent vowel?

From: Maurice Bauhahn (bauhahnm@clara.net)
Date: Wed Jan 17 2001 - 01:06:21 EST


I just asked the same question of Cambodia (and would appreciate your responses
on this thread as we need to transliterate Sanskrit/Pali with the Khmer script
as well).

At the moment I am aware of two explicit (different forms of the word 'to
give', AWEE)
U17B2 + U17D2 + U1799
U17B1 + U17D2 + U1799

and two implicit occurances in Khmer (where the independent vowel includes a
final consonant [but does not substantially affect the ordering]):

U17A8 (final U1780)
U17AA (final U179C)

Peter_Constable@sil.org wrote:

> In the better known Indic scripts, are there ever cases of conjuncts formed
> with independent vowels and a following consonant?
>
> I know this may sound weird. The idea would be a VC syllable like "al".
>
> Things that are more familiar are to have CC conjuncts, which would have an
> encoded representation of
>
> C + virama + C
>
> and syllables with dependent vowel diacritics, which would have an encoded
> representation of
>
> C + Vdep
>
> Now, suppose a VC conjunct were to occur, as described above; "al", for
> example. Would it seem preferable to treat the vowel like a consonant, and
> encode as
>
> A + virama + L
>
> or to treat the consonant, and encode as
>
> A + Ldep
>
> ?
>
> - Peter
>
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