Konkani Suppress-Script

[Peter Constable]

My point was, the statement on p. 372 is part of a high-level survey of Indic scripts with only passing reference to Konkani, making undocumented statements wrt that language. As such, it's not a whole lot more actionable wrt suppress-script, IMO, than any comments on Wikipedia.

The page you just cited also has undocumented info regarding Konkani, but it does give rather more specific details with, as you say, an "authoritative" feel. That provides a more actionable case for suppress-script.

Especially when combined with other good evidence indicating usage of Devanagari and Kannada.

Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-
> bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Debbie Garside
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 11:21 AM
> To: ietf-languages at iana.org
> Subject: RE: Konkani Suppress-Script
>
> Peter wrote:
>
> > The statement on that page is pretty vague. Could mean that a
> > single village newspaper somewhere started using Latin script
> > but ten years on its died out. If that were the case, that
> > wouldn't constitute a case to remove suppress-script in my mind.
>
> If that were the case I would have to agree.  However...
>
> http://www.country-studies.com/india/linguistic-relations.html
>
> This, seemingly, authoritative reference states:
>
> "The fact that the Latin script is predominantly used for Konkani
> separates
> it further from Marathi, which uses the Devanagari (see Glossary)
> script.
> However, Konkani is also sometimes written in Devanagari and Kannada
> scripts.
>
> Best
>
> Debbie Garside
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no
> > [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of
> > Peter Constable
> > Sent: 05 September 2007 16:04
> > To: ietf-languages at iana.org
> > Subject: RE: Konkani Suppress-Script
> >
> > > From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-
> > > bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Debbie Garside
> >
> > > Daniels, P.T., Bright, W., 1996. The World's Writing
> > Systems. New York:
> > > Oxford University Press. P.372
> > >
> > > An authoritative reference to the use of the Roman script
> > for Konkani.
> >
> > The statement on that page is pretty vague. Could mean that a
> > single village newspaper somewhere started using Latin script
> > but ten years on its died out. If that were the case, that
> > wouldn't constitute a case to remove suppress-script in my mind.
> >
> > On the other hand, this is a little less vague and is
> > relevant wrt suppress-script:
> >
> > http://www.ciil.org/Main/Report/1.htm
> >
> >
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
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