On 8/20/08 12:58 AM, "Deepa Mohan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That brings me to wonder, why capital letters came to be, at all...or, to be
> more precise, why there are capital and "small" letters, some of which
> actually look different from each other....? Are there scripts other than
> the Roman, which have capital letters? Capital letters seem to be a way of
> distinguishing the word from the others in the sentence in some way...how do
> other scripts do this? "mera naam krishna hai, mein punjaab sey aaya hoon"
> seems perfect without the capitals....
It seems capital letters are the reserve of Latin-derived languages. Any of
the Indian, Arabic, Chinese scripts don't seem to need them. Malay language
uses the english script for its written form, hence uses capitalizations
inherent in English. But there is no capitalization for the letter "I".
- divya
