Combinations with anusvara

[ohbendy]

Currently we have only provision for the -au vowel with anusvara:

I wonder whether the -i, -ii or -ai can ever also occur with anusvara? Do such sequences exist in Phake, Aiton, Khamyang, Khamti or Turung? Obviously not positioned well but would these be helpful to include?

[StephenMorey]

au vowel plus anusvara is the way to say 'im' (and 'em') in these languages On your chart, the middle one would never happen because long i is never followed by another sound, it always ends the syllable and the same is true for the ai + anusvara. In the case of the right hand one, if i was used with a final m, it would be the m consonant. ကိမ် or က်ံ

[ohbendy]

Ok! That makes things easy :-)

For က်ံ we'd need to add sat + anusvara. They just sit on top of each other at the moment. How should this look?

[StephenMorey]

In this font we won't need sat + anusvara; we will use au + anusvara

[ohbendy]

Ah. Was this a mistyping then?

In the case of the right hand one, if i was used with a final m, it would be the m consonant. ကိမ် or က်ံ

[StephenMorey]

No I typed this correctly, က်ံ. Here it is converted using Craig's converter:

These are the hex values. 1000 FE00 103A 1036

[ohbendy]

I think I'm getting confused. I know we're planning to use A9E5 for the -au vowel, but I'm just wondering what should happen if 103A 1036 is typed (a font can't control which characters a person wants to use) Maybe the same thing you have here?

[StephenMorey]

Ben, yes, it's a good idea that if someone types 103A 1036 that it looks like the image you gave here.