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To: CarrotAndStick

So the Indian Tamil script has no vowels, like Hebrew?


14 posted on 01/12/2006 9:29:16 PM PST by FierceDraka ("Sure as I know anything, I know this: I aim to misbehave." - Capt. Mal Reynolds)
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To: FierceDraka
Nope, that's not Tamil, those are the consonants of the Devanagari script. Here's a complete list:


16 posted on 01/12/2006 9:31:47 PM PST by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: FierceDraka
A rough Western equivalent of how the alphabets of the Indian languages work is the forming of words with the pronounciation key of a dictionary. That is why words written in Indian scripts can only be pronounced one way.


17 posted on 01/12/2006 9:37:50 PM PST by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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