Re: Written Tamil and Srivas' Theory

2012-02-17 Thread srivas sinnathurai
Can we keep this discussion at Indic@unicode please. On 17 February 2012 16:08, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > (Apologies to others for revisiting this, but...) > > Sinnathurai Srivas said on Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 02:01:03AM -0800,: > > > Anusvara and Visarga are not required for Tamil. > > Tamil Gram

Re: [indic] Written Tamil and Srivas' Theory

2012-02-17 Thread Shriramana Sharma
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > You will find that ழ and ഴ are quite similar. They are both descended from > the Vatteluttu /zha/. > I should have said: "Vatte*zh*uttu /zha/"! -- Shriramana Sharma

Re: [indic] Written Tamil and Srivas' Theory

2012-02-17 Thread Shriramana Sharma
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > The limited (written) Tamil I know does not have a character / glyph > for the sound /zha/. (U+0D34 in Malayalam). Tamil instead uses the > (what I believe is the) equivalent of, U+0D33. > Mahesh, who said Tamil doesn't have a character fo

Written Tamil and Srivas' Theory

2012-02-17 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
(Apologies to others for revisiting this, but...) Sinnathurai Srivas said on Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 02:01:03AM -0800,: > Anusvara and Visarga are not required for Tamil. > Tamil Grammar (first chapter) deals with writing system. > Tamil writing system is different to mostly other Indic system.