Navlipi, Volume 2, A New, Universal, Script (Alphabet)
Accommodating the Phonemic Idiosyncrasies of All the World's
Languages. Volume 2, Another Look At Phonic and Phonemic
Classification: Navlipi, By Prasanna Chandrasekhar. This book
presents a new, universal script, denoted NAVLIPI, capable of
expressing all the world's languages, from English and Arabic, to
tonal languages such as Mandarin, to click languages such as Xo
Bushman. Based on the Roman script, NAVLIPI uses just five new or
transformed letters (glyphs) in addition to the 26 letters of the
Roman script; it uses no diacritics, rather making heavy use of
post-ops, post-positional operators. Its expression is very facile
and intuitive and highly amenable to cursive writing as well as
keyboarding and voice transcription. More scientifically and
systematically organized than even Hangul, NAVLIPI incorporates
essential features of a universal script, thus far present in no
world script to date, such as universality, completeness,
distinctiveness, and practical phonemic application. It addresses
the serious deficiencies of the alphabet of the International
Phonetic Association. Most importantly, NAVLIPI addresses phonemic
idiosyncrasy, for the first time ever in any world script; among
other things, phonemic idiosyncrasy makes transcription, in the
same script, of, e.g. Mandarin and English, or Hindi/Urdu and
Tamil, extremely difficult. It is felt that NAVLIPI is introduced
at an appropriate time for a globalized world, which needs a single
script in which it is easy and intuitive to transcribe all of the
world's languages; it may also assist in the preservation of
endangered languages. Apart from presenting the new script, the
book also presents a thorough review of nearly all prior art
through five millennia to the present, a basic discussion of
phonetic and phonemic classification, exercises in coming up with
new scripts, a glossary of terms, and more than 620 detailed
references in linguistics...
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