Narayan Govind Kalelkar
Narayan Govind Kalelkar (Devanagari: नारायण गोविंद कालेलकर) (December 11, 1909 - 1989) was a linguist from Maharashtra, India. He was born in the village of Bambuli in Ratnagiri District. He received his early college education in Baroda and Mumbai with specialization in French language, and a D.Lit. Degree from a university in Paris. He taught French language, French and Literature at Baroda Vidyapeeth, and Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan/Indo-European languages at Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Deccan College in Pune. Kalelkar authored several books on linguistics in Marathi language, Marathi, they being the first of their kind in Marathi. His ''Dhwanivichar'' (ध्वनिविचार) (1955) and ''Bhasha Ani Samskruti'' (भाषा आणि संस्कृति) (1960) received Maharashtra state's literary prizes; and his ''Bhasha: Itihas Ani Bhoogol'' (भाषा: इतिहास आणि भ� ...
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Devanagari
Devanagari ( ; , , Sanskrit pronunciation: ), also called Nagari (),Kathleen Kuiper (2010), The Culture of India, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, , page 83 is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental writing system), based on the ancient ''Brāhmī'' script, used in the northern Indian subcontinent. It was developed and in regular use by the 7th century CE. The Devanagari script, composed of 47 primary characters, including 14 vowels and 33 consonants, is the fourth most widely adopted writing system in the world, being used for over 120 languages.Devanagari (Nagari)
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