On 11/27/2010 4:49 PM, Sinnathurai Srivas wrote:
1/ Tamil alphabet does not represent sounds, but places of
articulation.
As I and others have pointed out before, this is not true. If the Tamil
alphabet only distinguished points of articulation, it could not
distinguish between 0BAA (a bilabial obstruent) and 0BAE (a bilabial
nasal), because both have the same point of articulation: bilabial. And
similarly for many other consonant letters. Nor could it represent
vowels, which don't have points of articulation. But indeed, the Tamil
alphabet *does* represent sounds--or to put it more correctly, it
represents phonemes, each of which is a set of one or more phones
(sounds used in speech).
2/ By law of grammar Tamil character already have a character for the
duplicate 0bb6 defined again for Tamil by Unicode. It is a deadly
distributive act for UC to introduce a duplicate character for Tamil.
It is the dictatorial Way the paid officials work.
Who's getting paid? Anyway, as has been said before, if you don't like
0BB6, no one is forcing you to use it.
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