{"id":394,"date":"2011-04-16T21:41:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T04:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/?p=394"},"modified":"2011-04-15T22:44:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T05:44:39","slug":"modi-1600-ad-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/16\/modi-1600-ad-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi &#8212; 1600 AD, India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_395\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/modiLa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-395\" class=\"size-full wp-image-395\" title=\"modiLa\" src=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/modiLa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Modi &quot;la&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Like <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/15\/gujarati\/\">Gujarati<\/a>, Modi is a variant of <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/14\/devanagari-1000-ad-india\/\">Devanagari<\/a> that was developed in about 1600 AD. Like Gujarati, it was used mostly for accounting, then later for administration.<\/p>\n<p>It looks very similar to Devanagari, but with fewer ligatures, rounder\/&#8221;swoopier&#8221; glyphs that are faster to write (and harder to read).\u00a0 Like Gujarati, Modi got rid of Devanagari&#8217;s inconsistent headline, but unlike Gujarati, Modi <em>always<\/em> has a headline instead of <em>never<\/em>.\u00a0 If you look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www-personal.umich.edu\/~pandey\/09249-modi.pdf\">examples of old texts in Modi<\/a>, it looks almost like the writer drew the headline before or after the rest of the text.<\/p>\n<p>Links: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Modi_script\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/modi.htm\">Omniglot<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientscripts.com\/modi.html\">Ancient Scripts<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www-personal.umich.edu\/~pandey\/09249-modi.pdf\">Unicode proposal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Gujarati, Modi is a variant of Devanagari that was developed in about 1600 AD. Like Gujarati, it was used mostly for accounting, then later for administration. It looks very similar to Devanagari, but with fewer ligatures, rounder\/&#8221;swoopier&#8221; glyphs that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/16\/modi-1600-ad-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abugida","category-meh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}