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Title: Navlipi, Volume 1 
Subtitle: A New, Universal, Script (“Alphabet”) Accommodating the Phonemic
Idiosyncrasies Of All the World's Languages

Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Branden Books
	   http://www.brandenbooks.com

Author: Prasanna Chandrasekhar

Electronic: ISBN:  9780828324212 Pages: 576 Price: U.S. $ 29.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9780828322157 Pages: 576 Price: U.S. $ 49.95

Abstract:

Presenting a new, universal script applicable to all the world's languages 
which addresses the serious deficiencies of the International Phonetic 
alphabet and also addresses the concept of "phonemic idiosyncrasy" for the 
first time ever in any world script.

This book presents a new, universal script, denoted NAVLIPI, capable of 
expressing all the world's languages, from English and Arabic, to tonal 
languages such as Mandarin, to click languages such as !Xo Bushman. 
Based on the Roman script, NAVLIPI uses just five new or transformed 
letters (glyphs) in addition to the 26 Roman letters; it uses no diacritics, 
rather making heavy use of "post-ops", post-positional operators. Its 
expression is very intuitive and highly amenable to cursive writing, 
keyboarding and voice transcription. The book incorporates more than 620 
detailed references in linguistics and related fields.

It addresses the concept of "phonemic idiosyncrasy" for the first time ever in 
any world script.

NAVLIPI incorporates essential features of a universal script, thus far present 
in no world script to date, such as universality, completeness, 
distinctiveness, and practical phonemic application. Most importantly, 
NAVLIPI addresses phonemic idiosyncrasy, for the first time ever in any 
world script; among other things, phonemic idiosyncrasy makes transcription, 
in the same script, of, e.g. Mandarin and English, or Hindi/Urdu and Tamil, 
extremely difficult. NAVLIPI also addresses the serious deficiencies of the 
alphabet of the International Phonetic Association and may assist in the 
preservation of endangered languages. 

Nicholas Ostler observes: "NAVLIPI is a systematic extension of Roman 
script with a number of aims in view: To be a practical (legible and writable) 
script for all the world's languages, but at the same time to represent the 
languages' sounds exactly and consistently, making no compromises on the 
phonemic principle. It goes beyond existing scripts: Beyond ordinary Roman 
scripts, because it requires that its symbols are interpreted the same way 
everywhere; beyond phonetic scripts such as that of the IPA,  by 
representing phonemes singly, rather than as a set of phones; and beyond all 
the other scripts, by attempting to replace every single one of them without 
loss of significant phonetic detail. 

This is a stupendous aim for a single system created by a single scholar.

"The main obstacle to Chandrasekhar's achievement is the phenomenon of 
"phonemic idiosyncrasy", whereby the actual speech sounds are organized 
into different, and cross-cutting, significant sets in various languages: For 
example, p, whether aspirated or un-aspirated, is the same phoneme in 
English, but the two versions belong to contrasting phonemes in Hindi, where 
(however) f is heard as the same sound as aspirated-p. By juxtaposing 
letters, Chandrasekhar conjures up new symbols that represent directly the 
complex phonemic reality. The attempt to have all the possible virtues of a 
phonetic writing system at once - on the basis of a single man's ideal - is 
what makes this a heroic endeavour." 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Writing Systems

Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=60449

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