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Invention of PIOA - Part 3: Latin versus Devanagari

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Hello Friends, There was a big issue going on during those days. People everywhere were using Latin letters in chat, messages, advertisements, reminders, notebooks, emails, posters everywhere to write Indian languages... Wait, what am I talking about? Am I still in a dream? Oh god! I am still dreaming like a Devanagarist, why god, why? Yes, dreaming like a Devanagarist, speaking like a Devanagarist, thinking like a Devanagarist... these are the few things that give an experience of being a Devanagarist. Devanagari Alphabets are Arranged based on Phonetic Characteristics Devanagari script is indeed a phonetic script for the Sanskrit language. The arrangement of letters in Devanagari is purely based on the phonetic character of the sounds represented by the letters. Labials are arranged in one group, dentals, retroflexes, alveolars, and guttural, each of them are arranged separately. But there is a problem with the alphabet. This alphabet is less relevant in the case of Modern Indian Lan...

The story of PIOA Part 1

  PIOA: The Pan Indian Orthographic Alphabet Those were the early days of 2017, and an idea was under consideration to be converted into reality. I had to deal with the script problems then. So for many days, I had to search for a different option, something ou t of the box, something very contemporary and modernistic, and something perfect for the languages spoken in my subcontinent. Something was actually happening from the previous year. Turkish serials were introduced in India for the first time. Indeed Turkish serials were appreciated all over the world, including the subcontinent (I am not a fan of serials though), I observed something unexpected. In the Eastern world where religion and culture both matter the most, there is one country which looks very progressive, very mature, and very sophisticated as well. It simply doesn't seem to be any normal Asian backward country. Simply we can't judge it by its past. The Ottoman past is present in physical form, but it is heavil...