- From: Richard57 via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 22:48:21 +0000
- To: public-i18n-archive@w3.org
As far as I can tell, the ABNF works for Tamil in Tamil script when there is no pulli (U+0BCD TAMIL SIGN VIRAMA) in _sight_. You can get a flavour of how Tamils feel about their script from TACE16 (a.k.a. TUNE). See the invective at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_All_Character_Encoding. The only conjuncts I am aware of are those involving <kṣ> க்ஷ <U+0B95, U+0BCD, U+0BB7> and 'shri' ஸ்ரீ <U+0BB8, U+0BCD, U+0BB0, U+0BC0>. Otherwise, U+0BCD terminates an orthographic syllable. Tamil seems to be the good example of an abugida as a neosyllabary. The ABNF, which doesn't even work for Sanskrit in the Devanagari, also fails massively for varga-distinguishing Sanskrit in Tamil script. Subscript or superscript numbers are used to distinguish the 4 plosive vargas, for which there is mostly only a single letter in Tamil. For examples of this scheme , one can look at http://sanskritdocuments.org/tamil/by-category/krishna.php. -- GitHub Notification of comment by Richard57 Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/ilreq/issues/31#issuecomment-297563181 using your GitHub account
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