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Post by Seva Lamberdar Sat Nov 28, 2020 7:54 am

The Indian Govt. should plan to harmonize and unify the scripts for various languages across India through the adoption of a common script (e.g. Devanagari). 

It will not be difficult to have a common script for languages throughout India anyway, considering most of the regional languages across India  -- including Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Odiya, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada etc. (and even the Tibetan language) -- already use alphabets which are based on Sanskrit alphabet. 

So the change to writing these languages by using the common script for Sanskrit (viz., Devanagari) should not pose any technical and linguistic problems, while even making it possible to write  them all by using one common typing set (typewriter etc.). Moreover, people across India in that case (with one common and efficient script) will be able to read all the regional languages and even understand them (partially at least) because of many close similarities between various regional languages.
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Post by Seva Lamberdar Sun Nov 29, 2020 8:53 am

Seva Lamberdar wrote:The Indian Govt. should plan to harmonize and unify the scripts for various languages across India through the adoption of a common script (e.g. Devanagari). 

It will not be difficult to have a common script for languages throughout India anyway, considering most of the regional languages across India  -- including Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Odiya, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada etc. (and even the Tibetan language) -- already use alphabets which are based on Sanskrit alphabet. 

So the change to writing these languages by using the common script for Sanskrit (viz., Devanagari) should not pose any technical and linguistic problems, while even making it possible to write  them all by using one common typing set (typewriter etc.). Moreover, people across India in that case (with one common and efficient script) will be able to read all the regional languages and even understand them (partially at least) because of many close similarities between various regional languages.

Incidentally, modifying and changing scripts for languages is not a new thing. The adoption of newer and better scripts in languages while discarding the old / obsolete scripts has been going on throughout history. Only recently, relatively speaking (the beginning of the twentieth century), the Turks and the Vietnamese had adopted the Latin (English) script, replacing the old scripts, in their languages Turkish and Vietnamese, respectively.
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