FOR THE KIND ATTENTION OF THE SUPPORTERS OF DEVANAGARI SCRIPT
THE FOLLOWING IS THE WRITING METHOD ADOPTED BY THE ZOOLOGY PROFESSOR R.KRISHNAMURTHY IN THE BOOK ‘MOOLA SOURASHTRAA BHAASHAA LIPI’ TO WHICH THE PRESIDENT OF THE ALL INDIA SOURASHTRA MADHYA SABHA SRI P.G.M. THULASIRAM AND THE GENERAL SECRETARY SRI E.SANTHARAM HAVE GIVEN THEIR OFFICIAL BLESSINGS.
THIS METHOD IS EXPERIMENTED BY THE PROFESSOR. YOU HAVE TO USE THIS METHOD AND COME OUT WITH YOUR EXPERIENCE AS TO WHETHER IT IS CONGENIAL FOR LEARNING HINDI AND SANSKRIT LANGUAGES APART FROM ITS SUITABILITY TO SOURASHTRA LANGUAGE.
MY PRESUMPTION IS THAT YOU WILL DEFINITELY COMMIT SPELLING MISTAKE WHILE WRITING HINDI AFTER PRACTISING WRITING SOURASHTRA LANGUAGE IN DEVANAGARI SCRIPT WITH THE VERY SIMPLE MODIFICATIONS MADE BY THE ZOOLOGY PROFESSOR.
WE SHALL SEE WHAT MODIFICATIONS HE HAS MADE TO THE EXISTING DEVANAGARI SCRIPT.
HIS VOWELS
A A [WITH A DASH OVER THE LETTER TO MARK ITS LENGTH]
I I [ -do- ]
U U [ -do- ]
E AE
AI
O O [WITH A DASH OVER THE LETTER TO MARK ITS LENGTH]
AU
AHA
He has removed the vowels ‘ru’ and ‘am’ from the list of vowels.
Note: There is no short form of ‘e’. in Devanagari script. To represent this, he has used the same letter which is meant for the lengthened form of ‘e’ with a diacritic mark.
What is read as ‘ai’ in Hindi/Devanagari, he assigns the lengthened form of ‘e’
When in Hindi, only one slanting line is written on the head of the letter ‘E’,
he writes two slanting lines on the head of the letter ‘E’ for representing ‘ai’.
The other major modification is instead of placing a slanting small stroke below the consonant,
he introduces putting a dot over the consonant to make it as a ‘consonant’
Ex. ‘ Mu mam ba ii’ is written instead of ‘mum ba ii’ for the dot over ‘mu’ is deleted and the same is placed over ‘ma’ written next to ‘mu’ and that is pronounced as ‘m’ !
You will get confused !
Let me not waste your time, for this method of writing was not appreciated in the ‘Minor Language Conference’ held at New Delhi on 24th March 2007. It was commented that instead of solving the Script problem, it will create new problem.
Flash: It was learnt that in the meeting of High Level Language Committee of All India Sourashtra Madhya Sabha held recently at Erode, it was decided to abandon the book printed by the Zoology Professor under the title ‘Moola Sourashtra Bhasha Lipi’. It goes without saying that the Professor has not obtained the consent from the members of the High Level Language Committee appointed by All India Sourashtra Madhya Sabha. Sourashtra Madhya Sabha also gave a free hand to the Professor and now they are in doldrums.
Readers ! Please note that this is not written to find fault with the zoology professor.
What is happening in the All India Sourashtra Madhya Sabha is reported.
My slogan is ‘Practise writing Sourashtram in any script you know’. I repeat that I am not against using Devanagari Script for Sourashtra Language. You can use it with suitable diacritical marks and additional signs. You should write as you pronounce. Short vowels should be properly represented.
tumi mudullo likkattak harumbam kero. teka pharaatu tumi ture anubhavam sango. Devanagarim Sourashtram likkitti phalco, Hindi kin Sanskrit bhaashaan meLLi likki savO. tevEL tunko kaay kaay tappun keraarasi menatte kaLaan avayi.
sauraaSTra lipim likkilEt avatte bheLi uttamam.
UPAMANYU.
