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by amitsy 3474 days ago
So, are you saying in the long run Devanagari as a script will die but Hindi as a language shall remain. Pretty interesting point. Seems like this is the direction we are going as well.
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I suppose it is possible.

For that to happen, there might be a need to teach and encourage it. I don't know how nationalistic India is, and if it would be well recieved. There is apparently an ISO standard for Indic scripts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15919

My own experience is limited to my sri lankan wife who enjoys texting with her friends. Among them, spelling is rather haphazard.