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this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2024
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Its beist of uv ruwnz. Its fun but not yuwsful haha
It's based off of runes. It's fun but not useful haha
Hindi and many other Indian regional languages frequently use the Latin script on electronic devices for casual communication.
For example, Kya haal hai -> क्या हाल है? -> how's it going?
I don't even know how to type the original script version.
No, I wasn't talking about this - this is basically romanization of Hindi, because phones with Hindi keyboards weren't a thing back then, and it kinda stayed that way.
What I meant was the constructed language system, like for example, the Bharati script, or the Manjikana system of writing.
From the perspective of a Hindi speaker Latin might as well be a constructed alphabet. It has less similarities to Devanagari than any other Indian writing system. It seems to organically fill the same role that constructed systems were meant for
I hadn't heard about them until now. Here's a Wikipedia article.
As a parent teaching kids to read, I'd love an alphabet that didn't have the stupid ambiguities of current English. Trying to explain to a kid that "c" can make a few different sounds is a pain in the butt.
The writing system has its flaws too.
- I and l look the same.
- 0 and O look the same.
- Why are their two totally different cases? Q looks nothing like q and the distinction serves no communicative purpose
- Similarly, why is there printed letters and joined-up letters – two totally different ways of writing?
- Loops are sometimes merely stylistic, but some letters like say b has a loop that is essential to it.
- b and d are mirror-images, and this confuses some children
- "dot your I-s and cross your T-s" – the pen has to be lifted from the page to do this, so people don't always bother.
Some of these might sound like non-issues to grown-ups, but they're hard for children.
joined-up letters
Do you mean cursive?