Common script to unite Indians?
Posted on: 17/Jul/2013 11:23:09 AM
An IIT M (Indian Institute of Technology Madras) professor has come up with a language called Bharati, which, he says, will help unify the country in terms of language. Prof. V. Srinivas Chakravarthy has also come up with a script that unifies major languages across the country.
�There are impossible difficulties to creating a unified language in India, not least because of the huge emotional component. A simpler goal would be to figure out a unified script that can convey information in all Indian languages� Anyone who knows one of the major Indian scripts can learn Bharati script in an hour. English is arbitrary. There is no logic to why A comes first and Z last. Indian scripts are logical. But, they are also unreasonably complicated and ornate. For instance, the long form of the alphabet that makes the sound `ah` in the Devanagiri/Hindi script is written by adding a vertical bar to produce the sound `aah`. The long form of the alphabet making the sound `e` is written by adding a hook to make the `ee` sound. Why should we have so many different conventions just to denote the long version of a vowel?�, said Prof. Chakravarthy. He has applied for a patent for his script.
