{"id":540,"date":"2011-09-26T20:28:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T03:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2011-09-26T20:41:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T03:41:32","slug":"gond-2010-ad-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/26\/gond-2010-ad-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Gond — 2010 AD, India"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gond "kha"<\/p><\/div>\n

It is not very common for someone to create a new script.\u00a0 Cherokee<\/a>, Ol Chiki<\/a>, Pin Cin Hau logograms<\/a>, Gurmukhi<\/a>, Hangul<\/a> are just a few of the scripts which we know were created or invented more-or-less from scratch.<\/p>\n

However, in all the cases that I have written of up until now, the scripts were invented by men*.\u00a0 This makes it all the more surprising that a female professor of English in India, Dr. Prasanna Sree<\/a>, has developed not one, but eighteen writing systems for minority languages in India, including another script for the Gondi language.\u00a0 I do not know why Dr. Sree felt that the 1928 Gondi<\/a> script was inadequate.<\/p>\n

I can’t tell how widely adopted Dr. Sree’s writing systems have been (if at all).\u00a0 This raises a question that I have touched on briefly before: how well accepted does a writing system need to be before it is a legitimate writing system and not a piece of art?\u00a0 Omniglot’s page on constructed scripts has 175 entries, many of which were designed more-or-less for fun.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (For example, see Thoorsha<\/a>.)\u00a0 Should these be considered artworks more than writing systems?<\/p>\n

*Yes, Empress Wu Zetian did introduce some characters<\/a> into Chinese.\u00a0 However, it appears clear that someone else suggested the characters and she merely approved them.<\/p>\n

Links: Omniglot<\/a>, Unicode proposal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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