Thursday, July 14, 2005
For all Malayalees,
I can see how a malayalee is in great trouble when he/she is on the typewriter or the computer keyboard. The truble was there all along, in 'writing', too. Why? It is the alphabet that is the sourse of all troubles.
I also understand how greatly we treasures our atsharamaala as a beautiful one. Really it is far from that. It is difficult to say in a few words how uncouth our alphabet is. It would be difficult to understand if I tried to say something in that direction. "A problem is fully understood only when it is solved"
So I have worked through several years, trying to solve rather than criticize. "Solution is criticismin full shape. If I undertook to express all my criticism of 'Keralapanineeyam' it would have made a larger volume than the book itself. And who would read it ?
Instead, I tried to reach solutions, and have them. The net result is:
we need to have only 38 letters plus 2 special characters
plus all punctation marks, numerals and arythmetic symbols
to write Malayalam most perfectly.
The letters are as follows
I can see how a malayalee is in great trouble when he/she is on the typewriter or the computer keyboard. The truble was there all along, in 'writing', too. Why? It is the alphabet that is the sourse of all troubles.
I also understand how greatly we treasures our atsharamaala as a beautiful one. Really it is far from that. It is difficult to say in a few words how uncouth our alphabet is. It would be difficult to understand if I tried to say something in that direction. "A problem is fully understood only when it is solved"
So I have worked through several years, trying to solve rather than criticize. "Solution is criticismin full shape. If I undertook to express all my criticism of 'Keralapanineeyam' it would have made a larger volume than the book itself. And who would read it ?
Instead, I tried to reach solutions, and have them. The net result is:
we need to have only 38 letters plus 2 special characters
plus all punctation marks, numerals and arythmetic symbols
to write Malayalam most perfectly.
The letters are as follows
- SIX vowels/ swarams
- Thirtytwo consonants/vyanjanams
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Dear Doc,
Where can we access your invention? Please let us know. How can we know more abt it? Have you posted it in any websites? You can mail me at kaleshkumar@gmail.com
BTW, have you tried Mr.Cibu's Mozhi translation scheme, which is very user friendly and the defacto standard for malayalam computing? Please visit the varamozhi homepage at http://varamozhi.sourceforge.net for more on Varamozhi
Where can we access your invention? Please let us know. How can we know more abt it? Have you posted it in any websites? You can mail me at kaleshkumar@gmail.com
BTW, have you tried Mr.Cibu's Mozhi translation scheme, which is very user friendly and the defacto standard for malayalam computing? Please visit the varamozhi homepage at http://varamozhi.sourceforge.net for more on Varamozhi
Dr. Austin,
We have seen complex languages like sanskrit, arabic has completely moved to electronic world. So do we really need to trim down our language? Have you heard about unicode and related language technologies? Most of the transliteration based input method allows you to enter any complex scripts (including malayalam) with out much difficulty. Please do a google search to find more about malayalam input methods and unicode. Good Luck!
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We have seen complex languages like sanskrit, arabic has completely moved to electronic world. So do we really need to trim down our language? Have you heard about unicode and related language technologies? Most of the transliteration based input method allows you to enter any complex scripts (including malayalam) with out much difficulty. Please do a google search to find more about malayalam input methods and unicode. Good Luck!
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