Michael, I do not wish to get into yet another long discussion (argument) but I must reply to one point.
> Your proposed combining ya-phalaa will do Bengali no service, as it > will introduce multiple spellings for consonant clusters in -YA. Um, actually if you look, you will not find any place where I have proposed a "combining ya-phalaa". I have so-far avoided any mention of such a thing due to the reasons you give above. (I think you will find that it was Mijan that mentioned that.) Andy
