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

[hrpansari at vsnl.net]

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From: Manik <manikchand at lycos.co.uk>
Date: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 10:01 am

> Sorry, you got it otherwise.

Yes, I realised it, just after sending the above msg., while discussing with one Oriya linguist expert.

However, all Oriya scholars with whom I discussed stated that :
the writer of the book and many others also mistaken the independent 'wa' character as "O+BaPhala" (rightly saying vowel "O+WaPhala") because the shape of this characters looks like vowel O with subscripted 'WaPhala". 

As stated in 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Orissa-IT/message/251
the 'wa' characters was ommited in text-books since decades, peoples became unknown about it.

Whatever may be the arguments, no one can deny the fact that the sound 'wa' is a inherent/unavoided part of Oriya script as words like below prounciated only with 'wa', these never could be prounciated with sound 'ba'.

pakwa, jwaalaa, swara, Dhwansh...
(never be) pakba, jbaalaa, sbara, dhbansh...

The quoted book "Odia dhawanitatwa..." explains itself clearly :
(see attached jpg)
'wa' = vowel U+A,     (never could be O+ba)

Sanskrit, Hindi, Oriya SANDHI rules may clarify in a better way-

For example (If I am not wrong):
Prati+aya = pratyaya, (i+a=ya)
Bhu+ana = Bhuwan (u+a=wa)
Vyakarana experts may define better.

In many Oriya texts in place of character 'wa' two vowels are used
'U' and 'A' are used. 
In Devanaagari where it is found written as
"tribhuwan"

In Oriya is is found written as
"tri-bhu-a-na". never should be "tri-bhu-ba-na"

Somewhere I also seen the Zouwana (Jouwana) written as "ZA-U-A-NA" (means youth).

Whatever may be the arguments in for/against the 'wa' character in Oriya/Bengali Script, the modern Indic computing developers are working with such solves to keep a balance between both, (with Unicode) so that everyone get their output in their choice, without objecting the internal processing.

With regards.

Hariram
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