{"id":433,"date":"2011-09-25T17:10:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T00:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/?p=433"},"modified":"2011-09-27T08:14:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T15:14:31","slug":"tolong-siki-1999-ad-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/25\/tolong-siki-1999-ad-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolong Siki &#8212; 1999 AD, India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_539\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tolongSikiCha.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-539\" class=\"size-full wp-image-539\" title=\"tolongSikiCha\" src=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tolongSikiCha.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"79\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tolong Siki &quot;cha&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tolong Siki was developed rather recently for the Kurukh spoken language.\u00a0 Previously, Devanagari was used (and is still used in large part a decade later).<\/p>\n<p>Tolong Siki is one of the few languages that was created from scratch <em>collaboratively<\/em> that we know of.\u00a0 For most writing systems, their origins are lost in antiquity.\u00a0 Many clearly evolved rather than &#8220;were created&#8221;.\u00a0 For recently-created writing systems, when we know who the creator was, there was almost always single creator.\u00a0 Tolong Siki is an exception: while Narayan Oraon (a medical doctor) gets most of the credit, he collaborated with Francis Ekka (the former director of the Central Institute of Indian Languages), Ramdayal Munda (former Vice Chancellor of Ranchi University), and Nirmal Minz.<\/p>\n<p>Links: <a href=\"http:\/\/std.dkuug.dk\/jtc1\/sc2\/wg2\/docs\/n3811.pdf\">Unicode proposal<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurukhworld.bravehost.com\/english\/lang_lit.htm\">Kurukh World<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tolong Siki was developed rather recently for the Kurukh spoken language.\u00a0 Previously, Devanagari was used (and is still used in large part a decade later). Tolong Siki is one of the few languages that was created from scratch collaboratively that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/25\/tolong-siki-1999-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":[24,25,16,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abugida","category-national-pride","category-now-ceremonial","category-unknown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","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=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}