... You appended that as a comment to Gleason's discussion. ... You've never done a phonemic analysis of a language? ... "Dialects" in which those three words...
... An aksara doesn't necessarily represent a syllable; it represents any number of consonants plus a vowel, but not CVC. All syllable-final consonants are...
... Gleason and Gill; they were indeed the first to describe Punjabi tones adequately; he doesn't think of himself as "ultra-orthodox," because it was he who...
... I appended it as a comment to your posting of G's discussion. I supposed that you were citing it as independent evidence, not merely as an indication of...
... Sorry, who's Henry Allan Gleason (1882-1975)? Al Gleason wrote his textbook while at Hartford Seminary (where, incidentally, he directed Earl Herrick's...
... For an overview (which may answer several of your questions below) of how they work and how that is handled in an encoding like ISCII or Unicode you could...
On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 06:34:15 -0000, suzmccarth <suzmccarth@...> ... Lack of support for Indic languages is not restricted to Opera, I'm sure! ... With my...
... and ... from a ... satisfying ... sure! ... like a ... based ... had ... something to be ... think ... only 1/4 an abugida apparently and yes I think I...
On Mon, 31 May 2004 17:48:15 -0400, Peter T. Daniels ... It seems that some of us reach maturity without knowing a very few words that are in common use. I can...
... Ah. Googling shows that the majority of the hits do indeed refer to the father. -- Knowledge studies others / Wisdom is self-known; John Cowan Muscle...
... [...] Do current versions of Uniscribe handle most or all major Indic scripts properly? Although I'm pretty disgusted with the fragility of Windows 98 SE,...
... below) of how ... Unicode you ... http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn10/ (links ... http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/indic-overview/Overview.html for those...
... letter ... any ... syllable. ... Aren't (C)(C)CV still syllables? On the other hand can you tell me if aksara boundaries and morpheme boundaries conflict...
... Maybe CCCV can be a syllable in some language or other, but in Indic or Dravidian? No akshara can represent a closed syllable CVC. The syllables of the...
... Regardless of origin, I would consider anyone who actually pronounces "vision" as /vIzj@n/ or "measure" as /mEzj@r/ to be speaking an unusually stilted...
... The point is not that anyone says [vIzj@n], but that a certain degree of theoretical neatness is achieved by treating the underlying form as /vIzj@n/ and...
... the ... letter ... element. ... represents any ... final ... syllable. ... Indic or ... Now I am really puzzled since Cree would have a similar syllable ...
... Cree can be seen as an abugida as well, although the vowel signs and the virama are encoded using size and orientation changes rather than diacritics...
... Ah, good. But surely "Alaskan" isn't the name of the language so written. In any event, how do you plan to encode it? There's no sign of it on the ...
... How is it "neater" to treat Z as /zy/ but not S as /sy/? Next you're going to be claiming that C and J should be /tS/ and /dZ/, or would you prefer /tsy/...
... Yupik, I gather. "Die alaskische Sprache", one of the "Eskimo-Mundarten". ... The recent unpleasantness about Phoenician makes me chary of answering this...
... ? What's what people call their system got to do with what it encodes? "Cree syllabics" has characters for each (C)V syllable, plus final consonants. From...
... The "Eskimo script" of Neck used English-looking "syllables" for some of its syllabic signs (see Alfred Schmitt). There is an alleged mainland US writing...
... I think the classification doesn't really apply, because it's a "sophisticated grammatogeny." Remember, not every script has to fit exactly into one of my...
... If his name's on it, he's responsible, unless you argue that this is another case like that of Alpher, Bethe, and Gamow. (Ralph Alpher continues to resent...
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