From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2007-03-11T01:27:55+09:00 Subject: Re: the name of Matz Hi, In message "Re: the name of Matz" on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:08:22 +0900, Suraj Kurapati writes: |Finally, it is said that the order of vowels in the Japanese alphabet |system is derived from that of Sanskrit. For instance, listed below are |the vowels from the South Indian Telugu language (the same vowels are |found in nearly all other Indian languages in exactly the same order). |The starred (*) vowels are found in Japanese (a i u e o). Wow, I didn't know that. Thank you for information. matz.