India is a home to many languages and scripts . Many of them has been lost in the pursuit of English. The rich heritage of India can only be understood through the ancient scripts first wrote in scripts such as " Modi" . Modern India needs to preserve and take appropriate measures to keep alive these scripts. I am sure there will be many others scripts used in different parts of the country. Happy learning....
Modi alphabet 
Origin
The Modi alphabet was invented during the 17th century to write the Marathi language of Maharashtra. It is a variant of the Devanāgarī alphabet. The Modi alphabet was used until 1950 when it was replaced by the Devanāgarī alphabet.
Notable features
- Modi is a syllabic alphabet - each letter has an inherent vowel (a). Other vowels are indicated using a variety of diacritics which appear above, below, in front of or after the main letter. Some vowels are indicated by modifying the consonant letter itself.
Used to write
Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 71 million people mainly in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Modi consonants
Modi vowels and vowel diacritics
Modi numerals
Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modi_script
7 comments:
It has been wrongly written as BhoDi instead of MoDi in the article above.
Learn about MoDi script on http://www.orkut.com/Main#Community.aspx?cmm=20726090
Thanks for the post! A question, shouldn't there be 12 vowels sounds? Here I see only eight. Do you know where the small "i", "u", the nasal "am", and the final "aha" sounds came from?
To learn Modi you can buy book at http://www.sahyadribooks.org/books/tumhichmodishika.asp?bid=300
This is a good book to learn modi. Also there are other 2 books to learn Modi script
Join for regular MoDi script updates - http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=20726090
There Modi script lessons conducted on Bharat Itihas Shamshodhak mandal Pune.If anyone interested learning that, check their contact details on website www.bismpune.org to see their next schedule.
I am working on a project to include the Modi script in the Unicode standard.
The proposed character set is available at:
http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n3780.pdf
I encourage anyone interested in developing Modi for use on computers to provide feedback on the proposed characters and the shapes of the letters.
Regards,
Anshuman Pandey
I think the cosonants "pha" & "ma" are scripted wrongly. Rajesh khilari can comment more precisely on it. Please check it out.
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