Re: Sinhala naming conventions

From: Michael Everson <everson_at_evertype.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:29:36 +0100

On 10 Jul 2012, at 08:13, Shriramana Sharma wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Harshula <harshula_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> I haven't heard any complaints from native Sinhala speakers about the
>> existing descriptions: e.g.
>> ----------------------------
>> 0D9A ක SINHALA LETTER ALPAPRAANA KAYANNA
>> = sinhala letter ka
>
> The existing names are fine for Sinhala speakers. Michael feels it would have been better if they had been named after the *Indian* Indic scripts.

No, my view is that it would have been better if all the *Brahmic* scripts had the same naming conventions.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
Received on Tue Jul 10 2012 - 02:31:20 CDT

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