In the better known Indic scripts, are there ever cases of conjuncts formed
with independent vowels and a following consonant?
I know this may sound weird. The idea would be a VC syllable like "al".
Things that are more familiar are to have CC conjuncts, which would have an
encoded representation of
C + virama + C
and syllables with dependent vowel diacritics, which would have an encoded
representation of
C + Vdep
Now, suppose a VC conjunct were to occur, as described above; "al", for
example. Would it seem preferable to treat the vowel like a consonant, and
encode as
A + virama + L
or to treat the consonant, and encode as
A + Ldep
?
- Peter
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Peter Constable
Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
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