[Oriya-group] My Point of View on Font issue

[hrpansari at vsnl.net]

In [Oriya-group] manikchand at lycos.co.uk wrote :

> revered books on oriya phonetics Odia Dhwanitattwa ...

states that ''ABARGYA BARGA... SWARA DHWANIRE PHALAA LEKHIBA ZUKTIZUKTA NUHEN''....

On counter point may I put the fact :

Za (& Ya), Ra, LLa, (& La), Wa
are ABRGYA (means non-grouped) characters.
These are also called Ardha-Swara or Ardha-vyanjana or Dwi-Swara.

So, according to above statement these also should not have a Phalla form??

But Oriya has Ya-phala, Ra-Phala, La-Phala, LLa-Phala.
and these are used unanimously.

Would these are also not ZUKTIZUKTA (rational)???

May I seek Kind reply in clarification from the writer of the book or other linguists??

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About the origin of these Non-grouped (ABARGYA) characters it is stated :
YA = vowel 'i'+'a'
Ra = vowel vocalic 'R'+'a'
La = vowel vocalic 'LL'+'a'
Wa = vowel vocalic 'u'+'a'

In orginal sahitya of KABI SAMRAT UPENDRA BHANJA use of 'wa' is found written in form of 
vowel 'U+A'.
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In Bengali scipt there was no 'wa' character, they have also now included it for international compatibility and making their script more phonetically scientific. Unicode encoded it at U09F1 (=BENGALI LETTER VA WITH LOWER DIAGONAL) which is originaly used in Assamese and Manipuri.

New generation of Orissa is much science-oriented, developing and advancing very fast towards excellence and global compatibility. They may decide this with their good logic.

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I agree with your point that lot of conjucts make a script more complex. So I give preference for a linear Oriya Script, so that realisation of Oriya SMS on mobile phones, Speech to text etc. could be done easily.

With regards.

Hariram Pansari