Questions for indians

[lakkis25]

Re: Questions for indians

@_Namkeen

let’s see… hindi and marathi all use devnagri script.

southern languages all have roundish looking alphabets, they all have independent scripts but sometimes look similar to each other. for eg, kannada and telegu have a lot of similar looking alphabets but in reality are different, and the spoken languages are TOTALLY different. i know because i once tried to read a kannada newspaper and was lost until someone told me it was in telegu :mad: tamil and malayalam have similar looking scripts that look like a lot of curlicues i have learnt japanese but i wouldn’t dare try to learn either of these two lingos. gujarati, punjabi again have different scripts. i think bengali has a real pretty script, and it resembles devnagari a lil bit, i can actually make out the words sometimes. rest of the languages, i don’t know how many there are… i haven’t a clue. my grandmother actually speaks 10 languages fluently :eek:

even regional languages have so many versions of the same language… i was told that kannada has like 5 different dialects.. and they are so sufficiently different that my parents preferred to communicate with each other in hindi and english despite being from the same state!

here is one site that teaches devnagari script: http://www.avashy.com/hindiscripttutor.htm

Kannada and Telugu scripts are mostly same with a little difference, i can read kannada though i’m telugu guy