Hiragana and Indic Scripts

[Peter Friedlander]

Dear Colleagues,
any ideas on leads on Indic script connections with Japanese Hiragana/Katakana scripts?
Hiragana/Katakana starts a i u e o ka ki ku ke ko etc.
The organization of the Japanese sound system seems related to Indic systems, but Japanese histories of their scripts that I have seen are quite silent on the relationship between Siddham and Kana script systems that I have observed (my current notes on this at http://bodhgayanews.net/melbournehindi/?p=22).
I am sure that somebody must have written on this, any idea where?
regards

Peter Friedlander
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Dr Peter
Friedlander

Senior Lecturer in
Hindi and Buddhist Studies

Asian Studies

School of Social
Sciences

La Trobe
University, VIC 3086

Phone: + 61 3 9479
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Email: p.friedlander at latrobe.edu.au