Carmo's pointing out to the author and site for the movement of Roman script for Marathi reminds me of a former Indian consul general in Toronto who was studying "artificial intelligence" at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, about an hour's drive from Toronto, which is recognized for its computer science faculty. He said he was working on a common script, possibly Roman, for major Indian languages. Didn't know what he achieved. I think after his retirement from the foreign service, he lives in the Darjeeling area. Konkani has a better chance of getting Roman script recognized than Marathi ever being written in Roman script. I doubt the purists and the linguists in the Marathi community would give up Devanagiri, which is one of the strengths of its identity. It's becoming very common to see Hindi written in Roman script, particularly stuff relating to Bollywood. The Hindi soap opera has titles written in Roman script.
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