Oriya: unusual conjuncts

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Mon Dec 01 2003 - 21:14:07 EST

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    On pages 56 -57 of the TDIL newsletter from April 2002
    (http://tdil.mit.gov.in/ori-guru-telu.pdf), there are various conjuncts
    listed that are unusual in that the shapes that make up the conjunct are
    quite different from the nominal characters that supposedly underlie the
    conjunct and from the pronunciation.

    Relevant portions from that newsletter are provided in the attached
    files, Oriya_unusual_conjuncts_1.png to Oriya_unusual_conjuncts_4.png.
    These show the conjunct and the underlying nominal characters underlying
    each conjunct. That source doesn't give indication of the pronunciation,
    but that the nominal character sequences described matches pronunciation
    is shown for at least two of the conjuncts by samples from the book
    "Oriya Self-Taught", in the attached file Oriya_unusual_conjuncts_5.png.
    Another unusual conjunct from that book is shown in
    Oriya_unusual_conjuncts_6.png.

    So, my question is how should these conjucts be encoded?

    - using characters suggested by the shapes; thus the 2nd conjunct in
    Oriya_unusual_conjuncts_1.png would be < nya, virama, tha, virama, cha >

    Or

    - according to pronunciation, following the sequences shown in the TDIL
    document; thus, the 2nd conjunct in Oriya_unusual_conjuncts_1.png would
    be encoded as < nya, virama, cha>

    Peter
     
    Peter Constable
    Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
    Microsoft Windows Division



    Oriya_unusual_conjuncts_4.png
    Oriya_unusual_conjuncts_1.png
    Oriya_unusual_conjuncts_2.png
    Oriya_unusual_conjuncts_3.png
    Oriya_unusual_conjuncts_6.png
    Oriya_unusual_conjuncts_5.png

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