From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sat Mar 01 2003 - 16:10:31 EST
At 20:53 +0000 2003-03-01, Andy White wrote:
>Michael, you are mistaken here, Anitra was referring to the composite
>letter ' A_YAPAHALAA_AA' and not the composite letter sign
>'YAPAHALAA_AA' which - yes - has been around for *quite some time*)
Ya-phalaa is a special shape formed originally when YA was combined
with a preceding consonant, which acquired a new sound, and which
practice was extended to use with independent vowels to allow this
new sound to be represented when word-initial.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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