Some context: The gojuon ordering is believed to be from the influence of the Siddham script. Siddham script started from India, went to China, and then to Japan. This same gojuon ordering of the Kana was responsible for the compact, learnable, and efficient 12-key Kana keyboards like Keitai and Flick.

As part of the research project we have to show in the final year, I thought of making a better keyboard for all of the Brahmic scripts.

What I properly made instead is a black box that will be between a keyboard and the place it searches for characters.

I do have a functioning keyboard for what I am talking about, but I think some reading is needed before going there: https://triangulatedexistence.mataroa.blog/blog/a-starter-guide-to-taravinyas/

Please read the introductory stuff properly, because it might be confusing directly going to the webstie the first time. Still, if you want to, check this out: https://bandhanpramanik.github.io/tamil-input-engine-checkbox/ (Tamil script)

Thanks. :)

My native language is Greek and from what I understand (I'm not a linguist), the stem of the word cannot stand on its own, for example σκύλος (stem: σκυλ-) is in the nominative but it still has an ending. Though I think inside compound words the stem is bare sometimes, like in νυχοκόπτης, νυχ-ο-κοπτ-ης (nail cutter) where the νυχ is the bare stem of nail.

Do you know of any languages in which the stem of a word also cannot be on its own? I think in most European ones like Spanish, German, English that is not the case.

Rule: It has to come from a natural language

Inner circle: sets the norms. Outer circle: India, Nigeria and the Philippines, which are “norm-developing” and make their own rules. Expanding circle: learns from the first two.

So “prepone” isn’t an error. It’s the outer circle doing its job.

I made a video on it (in comments). Send your best outer-circle innovations.

So I made this meme How Greeks look at you when you tell them a language had changes in 2500 years : r/linguisticshumor about how Greek nationalists will often try to correct people when using pronounciations from Ancient Greek instead of modern Greek

I have nothing against greeks and I love the Greek language, I just find that one thing funny but it's nothing too deep or bad

Now a commentor left a comment saying "Not our fault barbarians can't understand their language from 200 years ago!

Most pf you wouldn't even understand your script since you adopted Latin recently

Can any Turk understand the written form of its language of 150 years ago? Lmao"

I thought this was just humour like how we often just joke around about "barbarians" like germanics and such, not actually calling people barbarians or anything

So I told him about how I can understand Spanish up until 800 years ago, and he asked me European or Latin American Spanish, I said mexican cuz I thought he was asking geniunely in good faith and he replied (with a now deleted) comment saying how he would respect me more if I was Spanish and how we got conquered and shit

And I replied in a similar manner about his country just to be on par

i’m starting to suspect that they are indeed saying /d/ and not /t/ tho