Re: conjucts beginning with independent vowel?

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Wed Jan 17 2001 - 06:07:54 EST


Ar 13:50 -0800 2001-01-16, scríobh Peter_Constable@sil.org:

>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

No such thing as Ldep in our model, so you'd have to rely on A + virama + L.

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