Re: letters that "complete the rectangle" in Indic scripts

From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:13:25 +0100

On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 02:34:45 -0700
Stephan Stiller <stephan.stiller_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/19/2013 2:35 AM, Stephan Stiller wrote:
> >> As far as I am aware, a proper 'null consonant' has only arisen
> >> when it actually represents a glottal stop.

> > There's ㅇ in hangeul ...

> And I'll add that the letter "h" in various Romance languages...

I was thinking of abugidas, or, more precisely, Indic scripts.
Consonant sounds fading out should be another route, but I can't think
of any examples with Indic scripts.

Richard.
Received on Fri Sep 20 2013 - 10:16:46 CDT

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