From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Apr 01 2005 - 05:14:55 CST
At 07:05 +0100 2005-04-01, Sinnathurai Srivas wrote:
>Visarga's properties are vastly or totally different to the
>functions of Aytham.
Hardly.
>Also please see below, a simple abstract of what Aytham is.
>
>1/ The main function of Aytham: (Here h=Aytham, q=Aytham, x=any
>consonant) It modulates consonants to give Ahenumised and Aqenumised
>conconants.
(These terms are not English.)
>such as: kh, mh, ... xh, kq, mq, ... xq
>(Note: In Devanagari these are individual letters and in Unicode
>these are Devanagari Characters (such as kh, mh, ...xh) such as: hk,
>hm, ... hx, qk, qm, ....qx (I do not know about the equivalant in
>Devanagari.)
Yes. Aytham is used to show aspirate consonants because the Tamil
script lost these.
Aytham has three circles. Tamil Grantha Visarga has two circles. The
visarga indicates an aspiration of a vowel, specifically, an original
Sanskrit -s which became -h.
It is improbable that the Aytham is unrelated to the Tamil Grantha
Visarga. Or to put it positively, it is probable that the Aytham is
related to the Tamil Grantha Visarga.
>Character names are very respectable and has immense value. Grammar
>is something passionate to mostly all languages. Character names are
>very important.
I like character names a lot, as many readers of this list will know.
Nevertheless, they are not intended to be encyclopaedic, and it is
known that many are imperfect.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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