[sinhala-technical] Sinhala 'Syllables'

[Harshula <har...@gm...>]

Hi,

Background
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Takahashi and I have been discussing [1] what rules the m17n Wijesekera
input method should follow. We would appreciate some feedback on letters
that define the start of a new 'syllable', thus allowing the input
method to empty a buffer containing the previously completed syllable.
We need the help of the linguists on this one. The term 'syllable' is
used loosely.

[1] http://www.lug.lk/lurker/message/20061031.082256.17a60a64.en.html


Sinhala letters which define the start of a new 'syllable'
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1) All independent vowels (U+0d85 - U+0d96)

2) Kombuva (U+0dd9) - except if preceded by a kombuva.

3) All consonants (U+0d9a - U+0dc6) - except if preceded by kombuva or
kombuva deka (U+0ddb)

4) Kunddaliya (U+0df4)

5) All non-Sinhala characters/codepoints - except ZWJ (U+200D)


Comments please ...

cya,
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On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 03:19 +0530, Harshula wrote:

<snip>

> If we use the two terms 'terminator' and 'non-terminator' that might
> make it easier. My current understanding is that all characters entered
> whilst creating a syllable are 'non-terminators' and all characters that
> can follow a completed syllable are 'terminators'. In which case
> anusvaraya (ang) and visargaya would be non-terminators. However, I
> suspect terminators and non-terminators are not two disjoint sets.
> There's probably an intersection of the two sets. This will require
> tracking the context.
> 
> I had not thought through all the possible cases till you mentioned some
> of them. For this particular issue, I'd like to get the input of a few
> other people. Will get back to you ASAP. Really sorry this reply took so
> long.
> 
> cya,
> #