Jorge, Modi is the cursive hand of the Nagari (aka Devnagiri script). The original script for Konkani is considered to be Brahmi* from which many other Indian scripts have evolved as well as the ones in Cambodia and Thailand (i find these scripts visually appealing).
There are people around who can still write in Modi. In Parel, Mumbai there is an artist Achyut Palav who designs/'writes' in Modi. His work is in a current issue of Letter Arts Review. There are others who read old pothis related to land deeds, etc. At the XIHR, Alt Porvorim there are Modi documents which are part of the Mhamai collection. Venantius * (btw-a very beautiful script. Siddham seed syllables (as symbols) are an off shoot of Brahmi. Chimanlals in Mumbai sells stationey which has siddha-matras designed by Prof RK Joshi of the Industrial Design Center, IIT Powai. _____________________________________________________________ ><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a> wrote: > >> I am proud to write that we should learn to write Konkani as we >> did before the advent of the Portuguese. > >I don't think that before the advent of the Portuguese Konkani in Goa was >written in the Devnagri script, but rather (or mostly) in the Kannada script >and also, if I am not mistaken, in a now obsolete "Modi" script (which was >also used for the Marathi language). Perhaps Konkani scholars could >elucidate us on this. > >> I agree that like Kemal Ataturk did >> or as they did in Viet Nam, we would need our linguists to devise a >sensible >> alphabet (based on the Roman Script) to express exactly the pronounciation >of >> our words. > >I am totally in agreeme nt about this. > > >J =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet =================================================================== For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
