The theory of alphabet as the places of articulation was invented even before sanskrit came into being. The cracking of grphemes into scientifically structured places of articulation was the investion of Tamil sangams along the "Kumeri" belt.
Tamil alphabet and Tamil grammar follows this ancient but only scientific system. say we want to enable a humanoid to speak, we will need to build proper mechanical system to generte speech, not use database of sounds. So it may be that Unicode Consortium should leave Tamil alone, rather than trying to change it like ilogically and dictatorially introduce U+0bb6. Because that is the only scientific system that humans have in their hand. Sinnathuirai --- On Thu, 25/11/10, N. Ganesan <[email protected]> wrote: From: N. Ganesan <[email protected]> Subject: [indic] Re: Revisit Tamil sRi definition in Unicode. To: "Indic Discussion List" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, 25 November, 2010, 22:17 2010/11/25 "ம. ஸ்ரீ ராமதாஸ்" <[email protected]> On 11/14/2010 04:52 PM, Sinnathurai Srivas wrote: sRi in Tamil has meanings of respect, laughter, etc depend on the combinations intended. is it not 'siri' or 'ciri' to mean laughter? Here is the article about Phonetic science invented by Panini, this was possible by the oral nature of Vedas in Sanskrit: Prof. F. Staal's paper. Staal, Univ. of California presented this before a learned audience in Thailand. http://dakshinatya.blogspot.com/2008/12/staal-sanskrit.html Regards, N. Ganesan
