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Do you know alternative scripts for your language? If so, can you talk about them? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I mean scripts like Shavian or Quikscript. Are these script useful to you in your day-to-day life? How are they better than the original scripts of your language?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

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