Navlipi : a new universal script (alphabet) accommodating the phonemic idio-syncrasies of all the world's languages / by Prasanna Chandrasekhar ; foreword/appreciation by Nicholas Ostler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chandrasekhar, Prasanna.

Contributor:

Samuel W. Golden Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Phonetic transcriptions.

Language and languages.

Phonetic alphabet.

Physical Description:

xli, 576 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Branden Books, 2012.

Summary:

Now a defense contractor in the US, Chandrasekhar was born in the multilingual, multiscriptal society of India, and it is this background that he drew on to create a universal orthography capable of representing, systematically and scientifically, every phone (sound) and tone (music accent as in the Chinese languages) found in the world's major languages. He also defines and discusses phonemic idiosyncrasy, or the existence of sets--usually pairs--of phones that are allophones of the same phoneme in one language and distinct phonemes in another. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Volume I: Another look at phonic and phonemic classification: NAVLIPI

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel W. Golden Book Fund.

ISBN:

0828322155

9780828322157

OCLC:

762135229

Publisher Number:

99948209922