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Navapali
* Search
* नऽवऽपาलइइ
* Table of Contents
* Demo
* देवनागरी:
* नवपाली:
* why navapali?
* Navapali alphabet
* Navapali premier
* Major differences from Devanagari
* Example translation
नऽवऽपาलइइ
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Demo
1. देवनागरी:
2. नवपाली:
2. why navapali?
3. Navapali alphabet
4. Navapali premier
1. Major differences from Devanagari
1. Default to halanta
2. Use alternate letters for some "noisy" letters
3. Dealing with sanyukt letters
2. Example translation
DEMO
देवनागरी:
नमस्ते, मेरो नाम आयुष झा हो।
नवपाली:
नऽमऽसतए, मएरo नาम าयउष जहา हo.
WHY NAVAPALI?
Devanagari is the writing system of preference for many south-asian languages.
It is a very old language, and as anything old, suffers from alot of legacy
bloat. Navapali is a bloat-free modern take on Devanagari that simplifies the
writing system for use on computers.
There are four reasons for creating a new writing system for devanagari based
languages,
1. Devanagari is not well-suited for computers
2. Need for a fresh start - throw away the baggage
NAVAPALI ALPHABET
Navapali Devanagari Navapali Devanagari Navapali Devanagari क क् ग ग् ङ ङ् च च्
ज ज् ञ ञ् त त् द द् न न् ट ट् ड ड् ण ण् प प् ब ब् म म् य य् र र् ल ल् व व् स स्
श श् ष ष् ह ह्
Navapali Devanagari Navapali Devanagari Navapali Devanagari ऽ अ า आ इ इ उ उ ए ए
o ओ
NAVAPALI PREMIER
Navapali is based on the following rules;
* no fixtures
* easily convertable to Devanagari
* less keystrokes to type than in devanagari
* most keys fit on a qwerty keyboard without using modifiers
* easy to learn from scratch
MAJOR DIFFERENCES FROM DEVANAGARI
You can think of a letter as the atomic component of a writing system. This
means a letter cannot be broken down into smaller pieces. But Devanagari has
many letters, commonly called "sanyukt" letters that can be further broken down.
An example is क्ष = क् + श This is fine because unicode lets you add letters to
repre- sent common letters. But there are other two types of letters that can
also be broken down but are represented as atomic letters in Unicode.
1. Type 1: Letters without halanta
Most letters in the unicode devanagari block are technically sanyukt. Take क
for example. क = क् + अ but the unicode standard treats it like a single
letter. This is an issue, but the reason is understandable. Halanta is
explicit when writing, and you use the full-letter form most of the time
anyway. But, while the reasoning is understandable, in hindsight, it is an
issue. Computers are a different medium, and typing is very different than
writing on paper.
2. Type 2: The Gadho letter
These are letters that are very similar to their origin letter - except they
have a ह added to them. For example, ख = क् + ह. There are many such letters
in Devanagari
Gadho Letter Composition घ ग् + ह छ च् + ह झ ज् + ह फ प् + ह भ ब् + ह
There are many letters like these, that can be reduced to their atomic form.
Navapali does this.
DEFAULT TO HALANTA
When typing in devanagari, you have to explicitly write ् to denote halanta.
While this makes sense when writing on paper, it is cumbersome when typing.
Navapali assumes halanta by default.
tl;dr - क is क् in Navapali
USE ALTERNATE LETTERS FOR SOME "NOISY" LETTERS
Some devanagari letters are noisy. By that, I mean they take too many strokes to
write, and make the writing look more complicated than it should be.
So, to make the written text look more eligent and clean, we substitute these
noisy letters with the following,
Devanagari Letter Replacement letter in Navapali अ ऽ ओ o आ า
These simple substitutions reduce bloat from the text, and make it look eligent.
DEALING WITH SANYUKT LETTERS
Unlike Devanagari, Navapali does not support sanyukt letters. This decision
means that navapali is not a CTL anymore, meaning it can render properly on
terminals, and other dumb displays without the need for complex typesetting
rules. On the other hand, not having sanyukt letters means having lengthly words
that appear shorter in Devanagari. A simple example of this is as follows,
The word क्रम (meaning: sequence) can be written in Navapali as करऽम. Notice how
the number of characters appears to double, from two in Devanagari to four in
Navapali. This verbosity is the result of not reducing sanyukt letters. This is
worse for certain words, like उकाली ओराली = उकาलइइ oरาलइइ. There is alot more
happening in the Navapali transliteration, compared to the devanagari form.
1. So why are we making things verbose?
To explain this, lets imagine a keyboard. This keyboard as a cursor that can
go backwards or forwards. Here are the rules for the cursor,
1. [FWD] When a key is pressed, it is printed at the cursor. The cursor then
moves one step forward.
2. [BWD] The backspace key moves the cursor one step back.
Now let's take an example text in Devanagari.
निशिको बेला, चल्छु अकेला,
मिरमिर सडककिनार
Lets see how the keyboard cursor would have to move to type this out in
devanagari,
न *BKSPC* ि *SHIFT* स *BKSPC* ि क *BKSPC* ो , _SPC_
च *SHIFT* ल *SHIFT* च *BKSPC* ु *SPC* अ क *BKSPC* े ल *BKSPC* ा ,
<NEWLINE>
म *BKSPC* ि र म *BKSPC* ि र _SPC_ स ड क क *BKSPC* ि न *BKSPC* ा र
Now lets look at the same thing in Navapali,
न इ श इ क o *SPC* ब ए ल า , च ऽ ल च ह उ *SPC* ऽ क ए ल า ,
<NEWLINE>
म इ र म इ र *SPC* स ऽ ड ऽ क क इ न า र
Notice how there are many modifier keys being used in devanagari, whereas
the Navapali version does not use any modifiers at all. It looks alot
cleaner than it's devanagari counterpart.
Since the keyboard has a limited number of "slots" for keys, compromising
consiceness for fewer keys has alot of benifits. When writing on paper, the
number of letters in the alphabet is only limited by the memorization
capability of the writer. On a computer, there is a physical limitation -
the keyboard.
EXAMPLE TRANSLATION
Take the first verse from Diwas Gurung's hit song - Kati baschau maiti kai kausi
ma,
Devanagari Navapali हे… हए… कति बस्छौ माईतीकै कौशीमा हौ, कऽतइ बऽसचहऽउ मาइइतइइकऽइ
कऽउશइइमา हऽउ, माईतीकै कौशीमा मาइइतइइकऽइ कऽउशइइमา लाग्छ आँखा पाकेको लौसिमा लาगचहऽ
าनकहऽ पาकएकo लऽउसइमา मैले के गरौ, मऽइलए कए गऽरऽउ, तिमी आउछौ कि अर्कै बिहे गरौ
तइमइइ าउचहऽउ कइ ऽरकऽइ बइहए गऽरऽउ तिमी आउछौ कि अर्कै बिहे गरौ तइमइइ าडचहऽउ कइ
ऽरकऽइ बइहए गऽरऽउ
1. There are no fixtures here. They are replaced with letters instead.
2. Navapali looks more verbose (intentionally) than devanagari.
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