Re: Indic Syllabic Categories

From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 00:37:37 +0100

On Sat, 10 May 2014 07:02:03 +0530
Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> At least in *Indian* Indic scripts we don't have
> Vowel_Independent letters participating in a cluster via a virama
> unlike the consonant letter, but possibly in the South East Asian
> scripts this is not guaranteed.

In Devanagari at least, there does appear to be the exceptional case of
RA + VIRAMA + LETTER VOCALIC R. (Did this arise from the resolution
of /r̩/ as /ri/ or /ru/?)

Richard.

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