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Interesting. Looks very pretty but also time consuming to draw - 4 lines and not particularly easy transitions between them. I'll hazard a guess that people will naturally evolve a stripped down version of it for common usage.


time consuming to draw - 4 lines

You can write it in just two strokes.


Pretty easy for those used to writing in Hindi. Write a 'Ra' and a straight line across the middle.


You mean Devanagari. Hindi has no script of it's own. Few other Indian languages also use Devanagari. Eg: Sanskrit, Marathi, Konkani.


He likely means Hindi. It would be perfectly reasonable to say, e.g., “Pretty easy for those used to writing in English to write a $ symbol”.


That got me thinking: what would be the English equivalent? Latin alphabet? I’ve never heard anybody say that (outside of contexts were writing systems were explicitly discussed).


I often say "the Roman alphabet", which seems a bit odd. I suppose it's because I most frequently started talking about it in Japanese/Korean, where it's called "Roman letters".

A bit of googling says that it can be called both Roman and Latin.

Yay for trivia!


Romanji


Latin Alphabet and Arabic Numerals.


You mean Hindu Numerals[1]. The Arabs just passed on the Positional Notations on to the Europeans. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral_sy...


"A few" other Indian languages...


You are right. By the time I saw your comment, the "edit" link had disappeared.


Conflating "few" and "a few" or "little" and "a little" is a common Indian English-ism, I find.

/Indian


Correct, articles are dropped and sometimes arbitrarily added; at least the 'the' is.

I wouldn't mind normally, but in the case of 'few' vs 'a few' it can be genuinely confusing because there is a drastic change of meaning.




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