Konkani Suppress-Script
CE Whitehead
cewcathar at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 2 21:48:56 CEST 2007
Hi, I am not particular about where you all discuss guidelines for suppress
script, but after being mostly a passive observer of the arguments for and
against suppress-script for Korean and then for Konkani, and after doing
some research on the Korean scripts (with help from someone else; I am not
qualified to research Korean) and after perfunctorily reviewing a few
Konkani sites (again I am not qualified to research the scripts really),
I would love to see some guidelines too; to me both the suppress-scripts
you've pushed for-- for Konkani and Korean -- could be debated!!
* * *
Retrieving Konkani language texts does not seem to be a search engine
language option; but there are a few sites on Konkani--for learning Konkani,
Konkani dictionaries, sites on the language, language news. Some include
text in Konkani.
Here is a quick review of relevant online sites:
1.
A Sample site with words in Konkani (put in an English word; you will get a
Konkani translation):
http://www.savemylanguage.org/app/englishtokonkani.php
http://www.savemylanguage.org/app/home.php
Script??? Not sure of script but not Roman or Arabic !
* * *
2. News on the scripts
http://international.zeenews.com/inner1.asp?aid=194097&ssid=2&sid=ART
Nagari and Kannada are both possible scripts for Konkani
* * *
3. Language Site
http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com/2006/09/06/konkani-language-and-script-sod-10/
http://www.tskk.org/
This Jesuit Konkani language site (not all Konkanis are Jesuits of course)
preferred Devanagaria at one point but now prefers Romi apparently.
* * *
4.
Heres another site on the Konkani language:
Konkani language foundation--just a url, no site available yet:
http://www.vishwakonkani.org/
Debbie Garsides
http://www.country-studies.com/india/linguistic-relations.html is good
evidence however that there is argument as are the sites I retrieved (some
preferring Romi, some Nagari, some Kannada; I could not tell which was most
in use)!
--C. E. Whitehead
cewcathar at hotmail.com
>
>At 15:40 -0400 2007-09-05, John Cowan wrote:
>
>>The fact that we have allegedly authoritative statements pointing in
>>different directions for the script in use is pretty good evidence that
>>there is no single dominant script. Even non-authoritative statements
>>claiming that most Hindi is written in Latin, or that most English is
>>written in Devanagari, are not to be found.
>>
>>Formal proposal follows.
>
>I have an idea. Why not do some research and get actual text samples
>between now and 25 September?
>--
>Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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