Well, mzybe not so cool: Sanskrit script?

Dipak Bhattacharya dbhattacharya2004 at YAHOO.CO.IN
Fri Jan 1 13:14:21 UTC 2010


Did Sanskrit ever have a 'dedicated' script in the North? Grantha belongs to the South. A few other dedicated scripts eg., Nadinagari, were developed in the Decaan. But none became popular in the nineteenth century. Oriya has ever been as good for Oriya as for Sanskrit. So is Devnagari for Hindi and Sanskrit, Count Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam and Kannad too among others. And Gujarati, Newari, the Brahmi and post-Brahmi script and others I miss.  Similar to Latin, French, English,post-Kemal Turkish and post-war German? A situation ripe for Lewis Carroll. 
DB

--- On Fri, 1/1/10, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at GMAIL.COM> wrote:


From: Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Well, mzybe not so cool
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
Date: Friday, 1 January, 2010, 4:11 PM


It's billed as "Hindi", after all.

Happy New Year

2009/12/31 George Thompson <gthomgt at comcast.net>

> Dear List,
>
> I went to this google transliteration site and started to type in the first
> lines of the Rigveda, and immedately I ran into problems. How does one
> generate something like  Rtvijam?   And  how does one insert Vedic accent?
>
> This thing seems no better than earlier transliteration programs as far as
> I can see.
>
> George Thompson
>
> Dipak Bhattacharya wrote:
>
>  It works. Are the aksharas from the Unicode? Baraha� and iTranslator�do
>> the same thing with a Unicode font. Still, many thanks for the link. Best
>> wishes for a brilliant 2010 for all!
>> DB
>>
>> --- On Thu, 24/12/09, Jonathan Silk <kauzeya at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Jonathan Silk <kauzeya at GMAIL.COM>
>> Subject: well, rather cool, I think
>> To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
>> Date: Thursday, 24 December, 2009, 1:39 AM
>>
>>
>> try this folks
>>
>> http://www.google.com/transliterate/
>>
>> check the pull down menu on the left side.
>>
>> (I learned of this thanks to the incredible *
>> http://www.indologica.de/drupal/)* <http://www.indologica.de/drupal/%29*>
>>
>>
>



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