Re: Numbered consonants in Tamil script abugida series

From: N. Ganesan (naa.ganesan@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jun 28 2005 - 19:11:36 CDT

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    RW > Should there also be a TAMIL VARGA MARK
    >ONE? I thought I'd read of superscript 1 being
    >used for completeness. It makes sense intervocally
    >as a way of saying neither voice nor geminate.

    This makes good sense. Especially because in all non-Tamil Indic
    scripts, letters are pronounced just as written. But Tamil has
    context-sensitive voicing or frication for varga letters,
    http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9803&L=INDOLOGY&P=R6044 

    So, a Tamil Varga Mark One will make possible
    text-to-speech programs, and one-to-one Indic
    transliterations,

    N. Ganesan

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