#Wissbegierde: «4 cosas que no me gustan de las #lenguas de #Asia»; origen de la #escritura

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dIinOk0HM8

#SergioWissbegierde #Idiomas #Árabe #Bopomofo #Cantonés #Chino #Coreano #Devanagari #Gan #Hakka #Hangul #Hindi #Hiragana #Hokkien #Japonés #Jin #Katakana #Mandarín #Min #Mongol #jOkinawense #Tailandés #Teocheng #Vietnamita #Wu #Xiang

# Wissbegierde : «4 cosas que no me gustan de las #lenguas de #Asia»; origen de la #escritura

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dIinOk0HM8

#SergioWissbegierde #Idiomas #Árabe #Bopomofo #Cantonés #Chino #Coreano #Devanagari #Gan #Hakka #Hangul #Hindi #Hiragana #Hokkien #Japonés #Jin #Katakana #Mandarín #Min #Mongol #jOkinawense #Tailandés #Teocheng #Vietnamita #Wu #Xiang

I’ve been fascinated by the Modi Flour Mills building and the letters on its façade for as long as I can remember. Growing up, it was the location for many a detective story I concocted.

I finally got some images of its signs last week. Must go back for more on a sunnier day, but until then, please enjoy these larger than life wood letters in Devanagari and Latin — pigeons for scale 🤭

📍 Okhla, Delhi
📅 August 2023
🔗 https://indiastreetlettering.com/tag/modi-flour-mills/

#IndiaStreetLettering #Devanagari #Latin #Delhi

Gotta love the sign for a century and a half old temple, which features three scripts — Devanagari, Latin and Nastaliq — and a suggestion, perhaps, of a more syncretic time.

I don’t think I recall the word “pandit” being abbreviated with a raised “T” ever before.

📍 Kankhal, Haridwar (Uttarakhand)
📅 February 2023
🔗 https://indiastreetlettering.com/temple-of-ganga-and-bhagirath/

#IndiaStreetLettering #Devanagari #Nastaliq #Latin #Haridwar

most #Hindi books on OpenLibrary -- and therefore on #BookWyrm -- don't have any metadata in #Devanagari. instead, all of it is transliterated into some weird Romanized version Hindi that nobody knows how to read.

it's insulting and offensive to not store data about a Hindi book in the original script. like, why?? who benefits from this???

i've been going through all my Hindi books on Bookwyrm and changing all the metadata into Devanagari. i'm sure i'm breaking a bunch of associations in the process, but fuck that.

Ok, I can type gya and get ज्ञ, and I can type ai and get ऐ.

I can type gya and i and get ज्ञि or gya and u and get ज्ञु , and gya and e and get ज्ञे.

So why can't I type gya and ai and get ज्ञे with the extra line on top? (I've tried all kinds of combinations)

#Hindi #Devanagari #IME

A request for help from a #Hindi speaker (or #Devanagari reader) 🙏🙏🙏

9½ minutes into this video, the teacher finishes 33 sets of barakhadi, each combining one of the consonants with the 12 vowels.

But then she works through a further four sets, combining what look like four conjuncts with the 12 vowels. What are these four conjuncts? (They look like
क्ष, त्र, ज्ञ and श्र but am not sure)

Are they used often? Or can I postpone studying these sets without major impact?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt0O19OLqZw&t=574s

These two signs for the same building are in gold, on ground-level, and most importantly, completely and utterly dismissive of visually matching Devanagari and Latin scripts. I wrote a little bit about them in my newsletter https://mailchi.mp/05e0957f4a95/typographic-eye3-cp-type-tour a few months ago.

📍 Connaught Place, Delhi
📅 November 2019
🔗 https://indiastreetlettering.com/indra-palace/ + https://indiastreetlettering.com/indra-palace-2/

#IndiaStreetLettering #Devanagari #Latin #Delhi

Cool Artificial Intelligence Design Devanagari Letter Ai

➡️ https://geeksta.net/design/parabola-ai-devanagari/

A cool design for people who love teaching machines, model building, computer programming, developing algorithms and engineering. It shows the devanagari letter Ai, a vowel of Indic writing systems in a parabola grid in a purple to orange colors gradient.

#aideveloper #aiengineer #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #computerprogrammer #datascience #datascientist #softwaredeveloper #devanagari #hinduism

This hand-painted sign is so clever to use the eyes usually associated with the goddess Kali to create the chandra bindu in the word माँ (Hindi for mother). The flourishes are not a bad touch either.

📍 Swaroop Nagar, Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh)
📅 January 2019
🔗 https://indiastreetlettering.com/maa/

#IndiaStreetLettering #Devanagari #Kanpur

An unexpected bit of Cyrillic in the heart of Delhi on this bilingual plaque marking the statue of Russian poet, Aleksandr Pushkin. Over the years, the bloated Devanagari श in this sign has gone from pet peeve to something I have a soft spot for.

📍 Mandi House, Delhi
📅 November 2018
🔗 https://indiastreetlettering.com/alekasandr-pushkins-statue/

#IndiaStreetLettering #Cyrillic #Devanagari #Delhi

Nastaliq, Devanagari and Latin come together on this sign for a traditional medicine centre, where space is expertly carved out for each script without cramping their styles.

📍 Shastri Market, Amritsar (Punjab)
📅 December 2017
🔗 https://indiastreetlettering.com/house-of-surgery/

#IndiaStreetLettering #Devanagari #Nastaliq #Amritsar