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Is Devanagari dying?

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Is Devanagari dying?

No it is not and vast majority of Indians who speak Hindi are comfortable using this script but like everything else there is an attempt to achieve this very objective by none other than our own fascist, India hating, boot-licking so-called elites. But usage of the Devanagari script is only increasing.

Is Brahmi and Devanagari same?

Devanagari script is derived from Brahmi script. All Indian languages(both Dravidian and North Indian) are originated from Brahmi script whereas Devanagari script is used only for Hindi and Sanskrit(Other north Indian languages like Punjabi and Kashmiri are influenced by Devanagari script though)

How many vowels are there in Devanagari script?

10 vowels
Devanagari has 48 letters: 34 consonants (plus a few additional borrowed consonants according to Oommen, 1973), 10 vowels, and 4 diphthongs. A consonant letter never has a pure consonantal value, but indicates the consonant followed by a short /a/, a very frequent vowel in the spoken language.

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Should speakers of all Indian languages use the Devanagari script?

Expecting speakers of all Indian languages to use the Devanagari script would essentially be Devanagari imposition, akin to the Centre’s already well documented policies of Hindi imposition.

How many different scripts are there in India?

There are 10-12 major scripts in India. The Devanagari script is the widest used one, being used to write Hindi (the most spoken language), Marathi, Konkani, and Nepali, the language of the neighboring Nepal. Different scripts use different philosophies for the individual grapheme’s and their combinations.

Should all Indian languages be written in a script primarily associated with Hindi?

Expecting all Indian languages to be written in a script primarily associated with Hindi is to recast them as subservient to Hindi’s role in India, one highlighted by writing. One country, one script? None of these suggestions manage to answer a simple question, however. If it’s not broken, why fix it?

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Are Haryanvi and Bhojpuri dialects of Hindi?

So, While Haryanvi, Bhojpuri, Awadhi, Rajasthani/Marwari etc are ‘Dialects’ of Hindi, even officially separate languages like Dogri (Jammu/Himachal)and Maithili (Bihar) aren’t really doing that well under Hindi, having lost their historical scripts and using Devanagari Hindi as official language nowadays.