On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 07:12:59 +0000 Martin J. Dürst via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> On 2019/10/04 15:35, Martin J. Dürst via Unicode wrote: > > Hello Markus, > > > > On 2019/10/04 01:53, Markus Scherer via Unicode wrote: > >> Dear Unicoders, > >> > >> Is Manipuri/Meitei customarily written in Bangla/Bengali script or > >> in Meitei script? > >> > >> I am looking at > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meitei_language#Writing_systems > >> which seems to describe writing practice in transition, and I > >> can't quite tell where it stands. > >> > >> Is the use of the Meitei script aspirational or customary? > >> Which script is being used for major newspapers, popular books, > >> and video captions? > > > > This may give you some more information: > > https://www.atypi.org/conferences/tokyo-2019/programme/activity?a=906 > > Sorry, this should have been two separate URIs (about the same talk). > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8XxVZkfUkk > > > > It's a recent talk at ATypI in Tokyo (sponsored by Google, among > > others). So newspaper sales tell us that the Bengali script is still the *usual* script for the language. Is that a different question to what the 'customary' script is? Richard.