RE: conjuncts beginning with independent vowel?

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Sat Jan 20 2001 - 10:44:48 EST


Ar 07:02 -0800 2001-01-20, scríobh Christopher John Fynn:

>Combining ("subjoined") consonants are already found in the model adopted
>for encoding the Tibetan script.

We do not want to use the Tibetan model for scripts other than Tibetan, I
think. Except 'Phags-pa, maybe. This is because Tibetan has all those
silent consonants and long mantric stacks; Myanmar, Khmer, and most other
scripts do not.

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