Re: Perhaps all of India should adopt one script



On Jan 5, 12:33 pm, "ranjit_math...@xxxxxxxxx"
<ranjit_math...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
mb wrote:
On Jan 4, 9:19 pm, "M. Ranjit Mathews"

Considering Indian scripts, is there a single Brahmi based script
suitable for writing all Indian languages? I had to put together 3
scripts (Unicode Devanagari, Gurmukhi and Bengali) to arrive at a
phonetic superset of Devanagari that can be used to write an arbitrary
mixture of words from all the IE and Dravidian official languages of
India and her provinces. (IE languages include Urdu and English, of
course.)

That's because you are stuck with thinking in phonetic terms. It's not
about an arbitray mixture of terms, and it's not about particular
sounds. Assigning a phoneme value to a sign or combination of signs for
each language is not a big deal and of course you can write any
language with any system. All the rest is emotion or politics.

OK; let's say I speak a dialect with one set of phonemes and a mixture
of Malayalam, Tamil and English words. Someone else speaks another
dialect with a different set of phonemes and a mixture of Malayalam,
Tulu and English words. We can make ourselves understood to each other.
How do we write to each other? Do we have to learn each other's
phonemes and what graphemes are used for them before we set pen to
paper?

The proportion of such words and the phonemic distances from the script
are not likely to as huge, in such a case, as to impair communication.

Not that I can see any value in the OP's proposal except if some
serious improvement in learning ease would occur *intra-language*
(like, say, Latin alphabet for everything).

.

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