Talk:Brahmic family

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This page was listed in Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion probably because it was confused with the Indus script. Please note that the two are very different. The Indus script was last used 3500 years ago and it hasn't been deciphered; Indic scripts are a family of scripts used by a billion Indians today.

OMG! why was this EVER up for deletion??? How could you begin to confuse the two - like confusing Linear A with Greek! Khirad 13:50, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

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Contents 1 Text from VfD 2 Vowel signs 3 Semitic? 4 IPA 5 Seeking help and contribution 6 Indic scripts

[edit] Text from VfD

• Indic alphabets - unnessesary. Vancouverguy 19:38, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)
  • Is it possible to make it a redirect? Once the language is deciphered (if possible), this article will be useful. wshun 00:41, 15 Aug 2003 (UTC)
  • Could possibly redirect to Devanagari, but that's not the only Indic script; there's also Tamil and Kannada-Telugu. - Efghij 02:20, 15 Aug 2003 (UTC)
  • There are lots of different scripts used in India. We should have an overview article for them. I don't see why this couldn't become one. It looks a half-way decent attempt at a start. I see no reason to delete it. -- Oliver P. 12:53, 16 Aug 2003 (UTC)
  • Should at the least be a stub and links to the other relevant articles (and there are a few) -- Jake 02:10, 2003 Aug 20 (UTC)

Since Indic alphabets has now been merged with Brahmic family and redirected here, I expect the above is all rather irrelevant, but there it is anyway. -- Oliver P. 01:13, 22 Aug 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Vowel signs

This bullet point:

• 'u' is written below, short 'i' is written to the left if distinct from long 'i'.

looks dubious to me. I assume it doesn't fit all scripts of the brahmic family. Pjacobi 22:21, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC) This is very much true of the majority of Brahmic scripts. --Kadooshka 05:24, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Semitic?

I thought it was thought to be Aramaic, as it was the lingua franca of the ancient world. Although its not proven either so perhaps its best to keep it broad. Khirad 13:50, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] IPA

The list of IPA characters for Indic script letters is not suitable because pronunciation of consonants in Indic languages varies. Sukh | ਸੁਖ | Talk 20:06, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Sukh here. Unless we specify that these IPA values are accurate for Sanskrit only, they should not be included. It's misleading. --SameerKhan 20:42, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

When I inserted the table I put 'Pronunciation is taken from Sanskrit where possible, but other languages where necessary,' which is needed because of letters like Tamil ழ whose sounds are not present in Sanskrit. If we want to be precise, we could specify which are from Sanskrit and which for other languages. Moszczynski 16:16, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Seeking help and contribution

Dear Wikipedians,

We apreciate your valuable contribution in article named Wikipedia:Indic transliteration scheme on english WIkipedia.

We at Marathi Language wikipedia do not have enough expertise to update IPA related info in our article, specialy we have been unable to import/update IPA templates and do not know how to use IPA symbols.Please click here-this link- to provide help to update "IPA transliteration for Indic Languages" article for Marathi wikipedia

We seek and request for help in updating above mentioned article and would like to know relevant resources and refferences in respect of Devanagari and IPA .

Thanks and Regards

Mahitgar 16:08, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Indic scripts

redirect to this page? Doldrums 13:37, 2 December 2006 (UTC)