Re: Perhaps all of India should adopt one script

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Did you simply ignore my entire argument with Ruud, who was asking
about _exactly_ the same thing -- different dialects of a language with
different phonological systems? _Of course_ there's no single
phonological analysis that will account for all varieties!

No, I didn't ignore it; I just have the practical difficulty that
having discovered more phonemes, I don't have more akshars and matras
("letters") to go with them.

Now, what would be the way for us to write ynd and und to (1) each
other and (2) within our respective dialect groups? As homographs or
not? Should we write ynd the same way for (1) those within our dialect
group and for (2) those without or should we write them differently
when we are writing to groups 1 & 2?

Has anyone ever misunderstood what you wrote to them using standard
Mal. orthography?

I tried it once. They asked me to please go back to writing Malayalam
in Devanagari or Latin or anything but Malayalam script* ... but no,
they didn't misunderstand the message. It would have been difficult to
get this pun across, though; I wrote in Latin script. The long and
short of it is, unless I get around to submitting something for
publication, I don't need to write in Malayalam script since I don't
know a soul who can't read my Malayalam in one of Devanagari and Latin.

* what is pronounced as [mO:l] must be written as /makaL/ if written in
Malayalam script but when written in, say, Devanagari, it's acceptable
to write it as /mOl/.

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