Talk:Telugu script
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[edit] Copied, perhaps violates policy
Lot of information is copied verbatim from http://www.engr.mun.ca/~adluri/telugu/language/script/index.html. So either we need to rewrite or delete this. mlpkr 15:52, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Personal Opinions
The paragraph starting with "Telugu script has the capability to represent almost the entire phonetic spectrum of all Indian (and most world) languages" has a litany of untenable personal opinions expressed in, what appears to be, an attempt to prove the 'soundness' and superiority of the telugu script! For example, "only sound of the English language not represented fully in Telugu (in a theoretical sense) is the ‘a’ sound as in ‘apple.'" is clearly wrong. Telugu has no distinction between 'v' and 'w'. It doesn't have symbols for 'θ', 'ð', 'z' and 'ʒ'. It has no symbols for 'ɝ','ɒ' and 'ɔ' among vowels. Further, telugu has no corresponding symbols for diphthongs in English except for /aɪ/, /aʊ/. Even, it doesn't have enough symbols to represent sounds of all Indian languages. I think this section requires a rewrite. Varttik 20:20, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Development
The section on the development of the Telugu script is interesting, but should not be placed in a location where it looks like that is the modern script. The modern alphasyllabary, with consonants, vowels, vowel diacritics, and other diacritics, should be the first major section, and the development section should follow. --SameerKhan 20:35, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
I second SameerKhan's comment. I can't understand how this article can present many diagrams on historical forms, Brahmi script, and inscriptions, but never gets around to showing the current syllables of Telugu. I don't want to be negative, but the article in its current form was pretty much useless in helping me understand how Telugu script works. What I did find helpful is http://www.omniglot.com/writing/telugu.htm --Billgordon1099 05:02, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
