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.
