Re: Tamil sha (U+0BB6) - deprecate it?

From: Sinnathurai Srivas (sisrivas@blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Mon Jun 27 2005 - 15:10:10 CDT

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    Do you mean Tamil when you say Proto-Indo- ?

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>
    To: "Unicode Discussion" <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 3:27 PM
    Subject: Re: Tamil sha (U+0BB6) - deprecate it?

    > At 09:20 -0400 2005-06-27, Patrick Andries wrote:
    >
    >>>>Do you have evidence to proove that European Languages emmerged
    >>>>from Sanskrit as claimed by many.
    >>>
    >>>My library is filled with such evidence.
    >>
    >>That European languages emerged from Sanskrit?
    >
    > No, that sentence was sent without adequate proofing. "My library is
    > filled with evidence to the contrary." is what was intended, of
    > course, as follows on from what I had said above:
    >
    > The European languages (apart from Finnish, Estonian, Sami,
    > Hungarian, Basque, and Etruscan), the Iranian languages, and most of
    > the languages of northern India including Sanskrit derived from a
    > language reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European.
    > --
    > Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
    >
    >



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