On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Rick McGowan wrote:
> > 1. Is a halant/virama ever valid following other than a consonant (or
> > consonant and nukta)?
>
> Legal? In the sense of "any string is legal", yes; as is anything else.
> The implementation question to answer is whether it's useful or
> renderable, and if so, how.
>
> The independent vowel followed by a halant could be interpreted as a
> graphical answer to the question, "What is the sound of one vowel
> silenced?"
>
> Rick
>
>
Thursday, November 8, 2000
Rick,
My question was about the validity of a vowel after a halant, but
your mention of a vowel followed by a halant would seem equally as
illogical. (Note than neither languages nor writing systems being
artifacts of fallible humans needs to be logical.)
Regards,
Jim Agenbroad ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
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