Sanskrit Alphabet's Scientific Arrangement 'not found in any other language in world

[krsna]

Sanskrit Alphabet's Scientific Arrangement

http://www.hindu.com/2004/08/20/stories/2004082002710300.htm

 

MYSORE, INDIA, August 19, 2004: Recalling sage Panini's 2,000-year-old

contribution to acoustics, the former Vice-Chancellor of Hyderabad

University, B.S. Ramakrishna, on Thursday said the sage's

well-researched arrangement of the alphabet of Devanagiri script was a

unique effort. Inaugurating a national workshop on "Acoustic analysis

of speech" here, Prof. Ramakrishna said the scientific arrangement of

alphabets of Devanagiri script was in accordance with the pronunciation

of sounds. "This is not found in any other language in the world,"

Prof. Ramakrishna said. Prof. Ramakrishna described Panini as the first

researcher in the field of acoustics.

[stonehearted]

I noticed many years ago that Sanskrit letters are organized according to their place and manner of articulation. I don't know of another language of which that is true (except for those directly related to Sanskrit).

[xxvvii]

I noticed many years ago that Sanskrit letters are organized according to their place and manner of articulation. I don't know of another language of which that is true (except for those directly related to Sanskrit).

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I don't think Skt. enough to be regard as an artificial lang., but its alphabet & vowel sandhi are very artificial. For exam.:

iti + RiSi -> ityRiSi (instead of itirSi).

 

Skt. alphabet was arranged by sb. proficient in phonetics though the origin of a part of dev. letters is obviously related to middle east. Greek & roman alphabets resemble their ancestors in middle east.

[vanamali]

The International Phonetic Alphabet used by Linguists all around the world, is based on Sanskrit.

[krsna]

Sanskrit Manuscripts Should be Digitized

http://www.hindu.com/2004/09/05/stories/2004090511540500.htm

 

CHENNAI, INDIA, September 4, 2004: Sanskrit manuscripts should be

collected, microfilmed and digitized for posterity. The country had

lost valuable manuscripts and steps should be taken at least to

preserve the scripts available in vidyapeeths and mutts (academic

centers and monasteries) said speakers at the diamond jubilee

celebrations of the Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute here today.

Kapila Vatsyayan, chairperson, India International Centre, New Delhi,

in her presidential address, attributed a steady decline in the number

of students studying Sanskrit to a sustained campaign against the

language over the years. Sanskrit, she said, was not an ordinary

language and it was the culture and civilization of the country. Hence

it was the duty of everyone to preserve the language, she added. V.R.

Panchamukhi, Chancellor, Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Tirupati,

appealed to the Centre to set up another Sanskrit Commission as the

earlier one failed to complete many assigned tasks. He was for a

national, regional and local-level interaction among Sanskrit

vidyapeeths to discuss the problems confronting them and steps to solve

them. Justice B. N. Srikrishna, Supreme Court judge, said there was

immense scope for research on how to preserve the Vedas.