From: Sinnathurai Srivas (sisrivas@blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Fri May 30 2008 - 16:37:35 CDT
The aytham in Tamil is a glottaliser. (Aytham ஃ)
Alphabet in Tamil, contrary to all other languages, is the name for places of articulation. I think that is what IPA also defines alphabet as.
and aytham is the third dimensional glottaliser, doing functions such as ...
"loosely explained q-ising!, h-ising!, etc...
Aytham takes the form of consonants and vowels, but in third dimension, and modifies the two dimensional results in various forms.
Sinnathurai
----- Original Message -----
From: Lorna_Priest@sil.org
To: André Szabolcs Szelp
Cc: Karl Pentzlin ; Unicode List
Sent: 30 May 2008 21:57
Subject: Re: Glottal stop languages
"André Szabolcs Szelp" <a.sz.szelp@gmail.com> wrote on 05/30/2008 02:40:15 AM:
> Hello,
>
> While "usual" letters (q, etc.) do arguably have nothing to do with
> your research, Karl's proposal of adding the period-designated
> glottals does seem to make sense, as it's a related convention as in
> using punctuation mark(s) for glottals.
yes. if nothing else, it's very interesting! People have done some wierd things to represent glottals!
Lorna
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