tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25786759379357046222024-03-08T04:30:53.073-08:00Marathi modi lipi learningLearn Marathi by Kaushik Lelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360835247229381523noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2578675937935704622.post-55395599910581348902014-07-27T08:24:00.004-07:002014-07-27T08:24:57.017-07:00Resources to learn Modi script<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am an ordinary Modi Lipi learner. I learned Modi script using books by ढवळे प्रकाशन( Dhavale Publication).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have joined Facebook groups like</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/MoDi.Lipi">https://www.facebook.com/groups/MoDi.Lipi</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ModiLipiMitra">https://www.facebook.com/ModiLipiMitra</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/179844758709395/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/179844758709395/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On these group people put old documents in Modi script and provide their transliteration (लिप्यंतर) in Devanagari script.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This helped me a lot to learn new concepts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Challenges while reading Modi documents :- </b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1) Modi script has many alphabets which are similar. While writing them fast, they look quite similar. So one has to guess the actual letter using context.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2) Also every person has unique style of handwriting so some alphabets can be seen quite different from standard ones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3) </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reading Modi script is essentially reading handwritten documents. As one excepts many people have bad handwriting</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4) If we have to guess words from context then we should know the language very well. Though language is Marathi; most of the documents are 100-200 years old. Marathi language used in those days is quite different from modern/current Marathi. So many words are no more use</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5) Language is also filled with many Arabic/Persian (अरेबिक/फारसी</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">) language words/phrases.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6) Documents mention dates and days in </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Arabic/Persian/Islamic (अरेबिक/फारसी/मुसलमानी</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">) calender. e.g. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">हिजरी सन / सुहूर सन etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7) Documents are filled with many acronyms/short forms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Thus knowing standard Modi alphabets is just very tiny step for learning it. </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By practice one has to accumulate knowledge of</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1) Old Marathi words</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2) A</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">rabic/Persian (अरेबिक/फारसी</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">) language words/phrases.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3) Short-forms/Acronyms</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4) Old style calender </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5) Different ways of writing same alphabet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6) Different ways of writing same combined alphabet (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">जोडाक्षर)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5) Similar looking shapes but indicating different alphabets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So In this blog I am trying to note down things which I observe related to above points. </span></div>
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