An excerpt from ꠔꠣꠟꠤꠛ ꠢꠥꠍꠘ/ তালিব হুছন

Talib Husan, "Husan the Pupil", in the Sylhet Nagari script. Being written by Ghulam Husan in 1549 CE, Talib Husan is potentially the oldest surviving piece of Sylhet Nagari literature, although the puthi Bhedshar may or may not be older, thought to have been written on an unspecified date in the 16th century CE. This puthi provides the manner in which Sufi literature was introduced to the Silchar region of Assam. Of course, the manuscript in the post is a much more recent reprinting of the story, being handwritten in the 19th century CE. ancient and poetic language is used in this puthi , originally being from the Middle Bengali period.

Creadit : @ agyatanama on Instagram

SOURCE: Omniglot, Google

Avestan, a relative of old Persian, a language that grew and thrived in the sands of Iran... has been written in the Devanagari script for centuries.

Avestan is the holy language of the Zoroastrianins (Parsis), there holy texts the Avesta and Gathas are written in it. As Parsis have been living in India for multiple centuries they started writing Avestan in the Devanagari script, as well as in the Gujarati script too, to some extent. In fact, there has been a long tradition of Zoroastrian priests who were also Sanskrit scholars and translated avestan works and Zoroastrian holy texts into Sanskrit. It started with Neryosang Dhaval (11th-14th century, there is some debate amongst historians), who translated vital holy texts and preserved critical theological works. His scholarly contributions are so impressive that they are celebrated by Parsis in the form of Sanjan day.

As for the script itself, Avestan fricatives were mapped onto Indic aspirants. (nuqtas weren't actually used, no idea why omniglot included them).

Vowels were a different story, Avestan has quite an expansive vowel inventory, similar but quite different from Sanskrit's. Many Devanagari symbols were repurposed and even some new ones were created for the vowels.

The most interesting symbols have to be the unique Avestan ॹ,‌ making the /ʒ/ sound, and the Devanagari aao, ाो (I only know how to make the diacritic), making the /ɑ/ sound.

Transliteration to Roman: Mānuhe Mānuhôr Bābe, Zôdihe Ôkônu Nebhābe, Ôkôni Xôhānubhūtire

Bhābibô Künenü Küwā, Xômônīyā?

Mānuhe Mānuhok Besibô Khuji,

Mānuhe Mānuhok Kinibo,

Purôni Itihāx Duhārile

Bhul Jānu Nôhô'bô Küwā, Xômôniyā...

-Bhupen Hāzôrikā

Transliteration to modern Assamese:

মানুহে মানুহৰ বাবে, যদিহে অকণো নেভাবে, অকণি সহানুভূতিৰে

ভাবিব কোনেনো কোৱা, সমনীয়া?

মানুহে মানুহক বেছিব খুজি,

মানুহে মানুহক কিনিব খুজি,

পুৰণি ইতিহাস দুহাৰিলে

ভুল জানো নহ'ব কোৱা, সমনীয়া...

-ভূপেন হাজৰিকা

Translation:

If human beings do not care for one another, If they cannot spare even a little compassion,

Then tell me, my friend, Who will truly think of whom?

When people try to sell one another,

When people try to buy one another,

If we repeat the mistakes of our past, Tell me, my friend,

Wouldn't we only be repeating the same wrongs again...

-Bhupen Hazarika

In my native language Tulu we use ബാസെ ഇജ്ജി/ಬಾಸೆ ಇಜ್ಜಿ which means "not having sense" or used when someone does mischievous behaviour

But if we translate it literarily it means "no language"

Lipikāla re-sets a name or short message letter-by-letter in a historic Indian script — Brahmi, Grantha, Siddhaṃ, Śāradā, Bhaiksuki, or Nandinagari — the way it might have looked cut in stone, on a copper plate, or on a palm leaf. You can type in roman letters or directly in 8 modern scripts (Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Sanskrit/Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Odia).

Link: https://yourownaiguru-jpg.github.io/personal-tools/lipikala/

A few things worth knowing before you try it:

• It's real Unicode code points for that script's own block, not a font trick over Devanagari — copy the output and it stays that script elsewhere.
• Every era is labeled authentic (its script has a Unicode encoding) or approximation (it doesn't yet — Vatteluttu, the Kadamba hand — so the nearest living descendant stands in, always disclosed in the caption).
• Tamil-Brahmi was just fixed to use the dedicated Old Tamil puḷḷi and short-e/short-o characters Unicode encodes for that orthography, instead of collapsing them into the generic Brahmi virama and long vowels.

Curious what this sub thinks: which script should get added next? I've seen posts here on Ahom, Kamrupi/Assamese, and Syloti Nagri — a few, like Ahom and Meitei Mayek, already have real Unicode blocks, so they're realistic candidates if there's interest. What would you want to see your own name in?

(If you enjoy small tools like this, I post more of them on X: https://x.com/OwnAIGuru)

ਹੇ ਕ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਣਾ...

ਤੂੰ ਇਹ ਦੁਨੀਆ ਵਿੱਚ ਕੇ-ਕੇ ਰੂਪੰ ਸੇ ਜਾਣੇ...

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ਹੇ ਕ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਣਾ ਤੂੰ ਇਹ ਦੁਨੀਆ ਵਿੱਚ ਕੇ-ਕੇ ਰੂਪੰ ਸੇ ਜਾਣਦੇ ਹੋ...

ਹੇ ਕ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਣਾ...

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ਤੂੰ ਕਭੀ ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਖ਼ੁਦ ਦਾ ਮਾਮਾ ਕੰਸ ਦਾ ਵੱਧ ਕਰਾਵੈ...

ਤੂੰ ਕਭੀ ਨਰਕਸੁਰ ਦਾ ਵੱਧ ਕਰਾਵੈ...

ਤੂੰ ਕਭੀ ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਅਰਜਣ ਨੂੰ ਮੱਦਤ ਕਰਾਵੈ..

ਤੂੰ ਕਭੀ ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਪਰਮ ਮਿੱਤਰ ਸੁਦਾਮਾ ਨੂੰ ਮੱਦਤ ਕਰਾਵੈ...

ਤੂੰ ਕਭੀ ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਬਹਣ ਦਰੋਪਤੀ ਦਾ ਇੱਜ਼ਤ ਬਚਾਵੈ...

ਤੂੰ ਕਭੀ ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਬਚਪਨਾ ਵਿੱਚ ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਮਿੱਤਰ ਨੂੰ ਕਈ ਸਾਰੇ ਅਸੁਰ ਸੇ ਬਚਾਵੈ...

ਤੂੰ ਕਭੀ ਅਰਜਣ ਨੂੰ ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਅਸਲ ਰੂਪੰ ਦਿਖਾਵੈ...

ਤੂੰ ਕਭੀ ਭੀਮ ਨੂੰ ਉਣ ਦਾ ਚਾਚਾ ਧ੍ਰਿਤਰਾਸ਼ਟਰ ਸੇ ਬਚਾਵੈ...

ਤੂੰ ਕਭੀ ਅਸ਼ਵਧਮਾ ਨੂੰ ਸਹੀ ਸੇ ਬ੍ਰਹਮਸਤਰ ਨਹੀਂ ਚੱਲਣੇ ਦੇ ਲੀਏ ਸ਼ਰਾਪ ਦਿਲਾਵੈ...

ਤੂੰ ਕਭੀ ਭੀਮ ਨੂੰ ਦੁਰਯੋਧਨ ਦੇ ਸਾਥ ਹੁੰਦਾ ਯੁੱਧ ਵਿੱਚ ਮੱਦਤ ਕਰਾਵੈ...

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ਤੂੰ ਕਭੀ ਬੁੜ੍ਹੀਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਉਸ ਦਾ ਜਵਾਣੀ ਵਾਪਸ ਦਿਲਾਵੈ...

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ਤੂੰ ਕਭੀ ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਗਈ ਦਾ ਬੱਛੜੇ ਨੂੰ ਉਸ ਦਾ ਮਾਈ ਦਾ ਪਾਸ ਛੋੜਾਵੈ...

ਹੇ ਕ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਣਾ ਤੂੰ ਨਾਲ਼ ਕੀ-ਕੀ ਲੀਲਾ ਕਿਆਵੈ...

ਹੇ ਕ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਣਾ...

ਤੇਵਡ ਨੂੰ ਇਹ ਦੁਨੀਆ ਦੇ ਲੋਗ ਕੀ-ਕੀ ਬੋਲ਼ਦੇ ਹੈ...

ਹਿੰਦੂ ਤੇਵਡ ਨੂੰ ਖ਼ੁਦਾ ਬੋਲ਼ੇ...

ਮੁਸਲਮਾਨ ਤੇਵਡ ਨੂੰ ਨਬੀ ਬੋਲ਼ੇ...

ਜੈਨ ਤੇਵਡ ਨੂੰ ਵਾਸੁਦੇਵ ਬੋਲ਼ੇ...

ਇਸਾਈ ਤੇਵਡ ਨੂੰ ਕ੍ਰਿਸਤ ਬੋਲ਼ੇ...

ਬੌੱਧੀ ਤੇਵਡ ਨੂੰ ਬੋੱਧੀਸੱਤਵਾ ਬੋਲ਼ੇ...

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ਬਾਹਾ ਤੇਵਡ ਨੂੰ ਖ਼ੁਦਾ ਦਾ ਰੂਪ ਬੋਲ਼ੇ...

ਤਾਓ ਤੇਵਡ ਨੂੰ ਲਹਿੰਦਾ ਖ਼ੁਦਾ ਬੋਲ਼ੇ...

ਸ਼ਿੰਟੋ ਤੇਵਡ ਨੂੰ ਕਾਮੀ ਬੋਲ਼ੇ...

ਤੇਂਰਿਕੱਯੋ ਤੇਵਡ ਨੂੰ ਮੋਹੱਬਤ ਦਾ ਖ਼ੁਦਾ ਬੋਲ਼ੇ...

ਖਾਸੀ ਤੇਵਡ ਨੂੰ ਰਾਸਤਬਾਜ਼ੀ ਦਾ ਖ਼ੁਦਾ ਬੋਲ਼ੇ...

ਅਫ਼ਰੀਕੀ ਅਦੀਵਸ ਤੇਵਡ ਨੂੰ ਯੋਰੂਬਾ ਬੋਲ਼ੇ...

ਯਹੂਦੀ ਤੇਵਡ ਨੂੰ ਖ਼ੁਦਾ ਦਾ ਰੂਪ ਬੋਲ਼ੇ...

ਦ੍ਰੁਜ਼ ਤੇਵਡ ਨੂੰ ਖ਼ੁਦਾ ਦਾ ਅਵਤਾਰ ਬੋਲ਼ੇ...

ਪਾਰਸੀ ਤੇਵਡ ਨੂੰ ਸ਼ਾਓਸ਼ਆਂਤ ਬੋਲ਼ੇ...

ਹੇ ਕ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਣਾ ਤੇਵਡ ਨੂੰ ਇਹ ਦੁਨੀਆ ਵਿੱਚ ਲੋਗ ਕੀ-ਕੀ ਬੋਲ਼ਦੇ ਹੈ...

કંડલા ભારત દેશજે આથમણે ભરાજે ગુજરાત રાજ્યજે વિસ્તારમેં સૌથી વડે હેડે કચ્છ જિલ્લેજે ગાંધીધામ શહેર નજીકજો મહત્વજો ને દેશજે પશ્ચિમી ધરિયા કિનારેજો હકડો વડો બંધર આય. હી બંધર અરબ સમંધરજે કિનારે કચ્છજે અખાતમેં ભનેલો આય. દેશજે ભાગલે પોય કરાંચી બંધર પાકિસ્તાનકે સોંપાણો તેથી આથમણે ભારતજે મહત્વજે બંધર સંઈ ઇ. સ. ૧૯૫૦મેં કંડલાજી સ્થાપના કરેમેં આવઈ.

📚 A language is not truly empowered just because people can speak it. They must also have the opportunity to read, write and keep creating in it.

Today, 8 September — International Literacy Day, is a good moment to think about the connection between language and literacy in India.

Vygotsky saw language and cultural tools as central to how we learn and think. Cummins' Linguistic Interdependence Hypothesis suggests that literacy skills developed in one language can support learning in another.

But there is a practical question behind both ideas:

What happens when a language has speakers—but too few books, children's stories, libraries, educational resources or digital spaces?

Literacy needs a living linguistic ecosystem.

UNESCO's 2026 theme—“Literacy for people, the planet and prosperity”—cannot be separated from linguistic diversity. People need literacy in languages that carry their knowledge, culture and everyday lives.

🌍📖 This International Literacy Day, let's not only ask: How many people can read?

Let's also ask: Which languages are they able to keep reading, writing and creating in?

Happy International Literacy Day! 📚✨

https://reddit.com/link/1wagds5/video/1y0v8kcyo8oh1/player

Pronunciation: Jana Gana Mana Adhināyaka Jaya Hai, Bhārata Bhāgya Bidhātā. Panjāba Sindhu Gujarāta Marāthā Drābida Utkala Banga. Bindhya Himāchala Yamunā Gangā, Uchchal Jaladhi Taranga. Taba Subha Nāme Jāge, Taba Subha Āsis Māge, Gāhe Taba Jaya Gāthā. Jana Gana Mangala Dāyaka Jaya Hai, Bhārata Bhāgya Bidhātā. Jaya Hai, Jaya Hai, Jaya Hai, Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hai!

Notes: As Ahom doesn't have separate letters for the sounds 'ya' and 'ja', the same letter is used here for both sounds. The same applies for the sounds 'ba' and 'ya'. Ahom also doesn't contain any letter for the sound 'sha', so the letter for the sound 'sa' is used here

UDHR in Sanskrit written in the Grantha Script:

𑌸𑌰𑍍𑌵𑍇 𑌮𑌾𑌨𑌵𑌾𑌃 𑌸𑍍𑌵𑌤𑌨𑍍𑌤𑍍𑌰𑌾𑌃 𑌸𑌮𑍁𑌤𑍍𑌪𑌨𑍍𑌨𑌃 𑌵𑌰𑍍𑌤𑌨𑍍𑌤𑍇 𑌅𑌪𑌿 𑌚, 𑌗𑍌𑌰𑌵𑌦𑍃𑌶𑌾 𑌚 𑌸𑌮𑌾𑌨𑌾𑌃 𑌏𑌵 𑌵𑌰𑍍𑌤𑌨𑍍𑌤𑍇. 𑌏𑌤𑍇 𑌸𑌰𑍍𑌵𑍇 𑌚𑍇𑌤𑌨𑌾-𑌤𑌰𑍍𑌕-𑌶𑌕𑍍𑌤𑌿𑌭𑍍𑌯𑌿𑌯𑌾𑌁 𑌸𑍁𑌸𑌮𑍍𑌪𑌨𑍍𑌨𑌾𑌃 𑌸𑌨𑍍𑌤𑌿. 𑌅𑌪𑌿 𑌚, 𑌸𑌰𑍍𑌵𑍇 𑌪𑌿 𑌬𑌨𑍍𑌧𑍁𑌤𑍍𑌵-𑌭𑌾𑌵𑌨𑌯𑌾 𑌪𑌰𑌸𑍍𑌪𑌰𑌁 𑌵𑍍𑌯𑌵𑌹𑌰𑌨𑍍𑌤𑍁.

Transliteration: Sarvē mānavāḥ svatantrāḥ samutpannāḥ vartantē api ca, gauravadr̥śā adhikāradr̥śā ca samānāḥ ēva vartantē. Ētē sarvē cētanā-tarka-śaktibhyāṁ susampannāḥ santi. Api ca, sarvē´pi bandhutva-bhāvanayā parasparaṁ vyavaharantu.

(Picture is the Syloti-Nagri script from omniglot)

Sylheti is a language closely related to Bengali, and most Sylheti speakers are bilingual in Sylheti and Bengali. It is also related to Assamese. Sylheti is spoken mainly in the Sylhet division of Bangladesh.

The Syloti Nagri script is related to the Kaithi script of Bihar but its exact origins are unknown and the earliest surviving manuscripts are either from 1549 or 1774. The traditional story behind how the script came to be is in the beginning of the 14th century, it was developed by Saint Shahjalal and his 360 saintly companions. Other scripts were used too but were deemed as not suitable for Sylheti.

Thats all for today, bye now :P