{"id":427,"date":"2011-09-23T19:05:16","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T02:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/?p=427"},"modified":"2011-09-23T19:04:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T02:04:39","slug":"gondi-1928-ad-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/23\/gondi-1928-ad-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Gondi &#8212; 1928 AD, India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_528\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/gondiVe.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-528\" class=\"size-full wp-image-528\" title=\"gondiVe\" src=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/gondiVe.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gondi &quot;ve&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gondi was developed by a gentleman named Munshi Mangal Singh Masaram, to be used in central India to write the Gondi language.\u00a0 (In India, it almost appears that people don&#8217;t take a spoken language (and hence ethnicity) seriously unless it has its own writing system.)<\/p>\n<p>Gondi is an abuguida, and all the consonant glyphs have a short horizontal line on the right-hand side, looking sort of like a hyphen.\u00a0 The vowel diacritics all sit sort of &#8220;on top of&#8221; this hyphen.\u00a0 When the consonant participates in a consonant cluster, the hyphen is omitted.<\/p>\n<p>Links: <a href=\"http:\/\/std.dkuug.dk\/jtc1\/sc2\/wg2\/docs\/n3841.pdf\">Unicode proposal<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/gondi.htm\">Omniglot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gondi was developed by a gentleman named Munshi Mangal Singh Masaram, to be used in central India to write the Gondi language.\u00a0 (In India, it almost appears that people don&#8217;t take a spoken language (and hence ethnicity) seriously unless it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/23\/gondi-1928-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":[24,34,25,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abugida","category-inventor-known","category-national-pride","category-unknown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","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=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}