Talk:Devanagari
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Has anyone ever noticed these similarities?
editHas anyone, or can anyone look into the similarities between the Greek alphabet and the Brahmi alphabet which then influenced the Devangari? I absolutely see the similarity between the Devangari "थ", the Brahmi "𑀣" and the Greek Θ. Or the Brahmi "𑀓", Devangari "क" and Greek "κ"?
Some like the Brahmi "𑀮" as a flipped "L"? Is there a link between these scripts and Greek possibly? I just did a search for the word "greek" on the Brahmi wiki at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmi_script and it appears 33 times. Can someone expand on the possible greek origins of Devangari by way of Brahmi? Thank you.
Temet Nosce (talk) 03:28, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
- This is covered at Brahmi script § Origins. Brusquedandelion (talk) 00:54, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
use of phonological brackets / / instead of phonetical brackets [ ] ?
editWouldn't it be much better to use for example /r/ instead of [r] ? In the case of /r/ र, even in Hindi it can also be [ɾ] intervocally, and in Classical Sanskrit it apparently was [ɽ], [ɾ] or [ɾ̪]. In Marathi the sound is given as [ɾ~r] on the phonology page. As is well known, व can be [ʋ], [v] or [w]. And all this variation is not a problem for the clarity of the script, as they aren't different phonemes. Exarchus (talk) 19:40, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
The text of Śiṣyalekha is misidentified as Devanagari
editThe picture of the text of Śiṣyalekha is not Devanagari, it is a closely related script known as Nepal Script, which was the exant script in Nepal during the 11th century. While the description of the item in the source says it is Devanagari, additional metadata on the source page reveals that the script is in fact Nepālākṣarā (aka Nepal Letter/Script) in black ink. Therefore I will be removing it. Srsh101 (talk) 18:09, 7 August 2024 (UTC)