;Rajen Barua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FROM THE A.T. USE OF 'X' - Phonetic confusion
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 02:00:34 -0600
Similarly we write Sanskritic for Xangskritic, Sibsagar for Xiboxagor,
Simaluguri for Ximoluguri
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 4:29
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Subject: FROM THE A.T. USE OF 'X' -
Phonetic confusion
Raiz, Assamese is a fully developed languagelike
English having its own grammar. Everyalphabet occupies its unique
position as it should do. Talobya 'Xo' - thirtieth letter
Rajen Kokaideo,
In my humble view,your logic of supplanting s in favour of x makes
tremendous sense in so far as pronounciation is concerned.I am in slight
disagreement with your comment-- for the sake of preserving Assamese phonem
by children,specially those who live outside of Assam.This will
Kamal:
That was an extremely informative note Kamal. Thanks.
I think you know a whole lot more of 'phonology' than I ever would.
s-k :-)
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Rajen Kokaideo,
In my humble view,your logic of supplanting s in favour of x makes
tremendous
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Subject: Re: FROM THE A.T. USE OF 'X' - Phonetic confusion
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 13:03:21 EST
Rajen Kokaideo,
In my humble view,your logic of supplanting s in favour of x makes
tremendous sense in so far as pronounciation is concerned.I am in slight
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Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: FROM THE A.T. USE OF 'X' - Phonetic confusion
Thanks Kamal for your valuable input. Well, regarding preservung the
Assamese phonem, we need at least to make an attempt whiat is reasonable.
Our problem
In order to educate the rest of the Indians about the presence of extra phonems in our language, let's look at the processof information transfer to the rest of India from Assam. The news goes to the vernacular dailies through the English medium, not in the vernacular languages, definitely not in
Dear Hazarika-da,
I really should not get involved in a discussion of a subject that I have
little knowledge of. However, I do get curious about a few things here. And
that is why the long winded response. Please take them for what they are
worth. I have no illusions about what that might be:
along with the x for assamese in roman, maybe there are a few
other things axx can help with.
unicode: most of the world will soon conform to the unicode
standard, which will define a single uniform codeset for all the
languages in the world.
http://www.unicode.org
presently assamese is present
What is this AXX? Axom Xahitya Xabha?
It should be either Assam Sahitya Sabha (ASS) or Oxom Xahitya Xobha (OXX) -
if one is sensitive about it, that is.
If one is so particular about the right pronounciation of all the 'xo's
etc., isn't it strange that the readily available 'O' is not being used
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Subject: FROM THE A.T. USE OF 'X' - Phonetic confusion
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 10:59:40 -
Raiz, Assamese is a fully developed language like English having its own grammar. Every alphabet occupies its unique position as i
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