On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 17:31:59 +0530 Shriramana Sharma <samj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> And you will certainly agree that a non-native cannot immediately know > what is the significance of the Indic character names DA vs DDA (vs > DDDA or DDDDA), SSA, RRA, NNA, NNNA, LLA, LLLA and so on! :-) On the contrary, doubling for (historical) retroflexion is a fairly clear convention. Richard.