[indic] Fwd: Re: Displaying indic vowel sign independant of a consonant

[Hariram]

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From: Hariram <hariraama at gmail.com>
Date: Jul 14, 2008 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [indic] Re: Displaying indic vowel sign independant of a
consonant
To: Santhosh Pillai <sanpil at microsoft.com>

For extending a Vowel Sign(sound) in Indic the Avagraha U093D (or 0B3D or
xx3D) is used since centuries.
Sometimes two or three Avagraha seen used in Sanskrit & Vedic Texts. Vowel
sounds also found 3 types Hrsva (ह्रस्व), Deergh(दीर्घ) and Pluta(प्लुत).

In English to write "Ahhhh…", "Wooo Hooo", "Eeee" Vowels repeated, because
there is no Avagraha like facility/system. This type repeating vowels will
confuse, can't give perfect sounds. वूऽऽऽ is never equal to वूऊऊऊ.

Indic Scripts are much more advanced and scientific than English/Latin.

-- Hariram


 On 7/13/08, Santhosh Pillai <sanpil at microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>  This works if we only want to eliminate the preceding circle in one of
> vowel-sign/anusvaram/visargam.
>
> How do we get to write if two of these are adjacent to one another?
>
> Example: If we want the anusvaram is preceded immediately by the vowel
> sign, the ZWJ + ാ + ZWJ + ം does not seem to work.
>
> Example:
>
>
>
> Also, it is common in English to write "Ahhhh…", "Wooo Hooo", "Eeee" to
> express certain emotions. The way most of the similar expressions are done
> in Malayalam is to extend the vowel sound at the end of a word, or extending
> the vowel at the end of a single stand-alone word.
>
>
>
> For example,
>
>
>
> ഹാാാാാ... (laughter/showing pain)
>
> േേേേഠ... (sound of a gun)
>
> പോകൂൂൂൂൂൂ! (Go!)
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
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