Balbodh

English + thumb|Balbodh alphabet chart Etymology en mr बाळबोध understood by children. Proper noun A variant of the Devanagari script adopted to write the Marathi, Konkani, Varhadi, Khandeshi and Korku languages in around the states of Maharashtra and Goa in India. en Modi en 2002 9781843310549 Language, Politics, Elites and the Public Sphere Western India Under Colonialism Veena Naregal https://books.google.co.in/books?id=gVnzjvcfSuYC&pg=PA167 167 4. Colonial Power, Print and the Re-Making of the Literate Sphere: Western India Under Colonialism Anthem Press Typically for the colonial situation, the decision to fix scripts for Gujarati and Marathi was the result of an official decree in 1826. No doubt, reasons of official convenience and economy had been the paramount consideration. The order declared that, from then on, balbodh or the devanagari would be the standard script used for Marathi print. This was to be mainly implemented through conferring official recognition upon the ability to read and write balbodh; by making these skills a basic pre-qualification for trainee schoolteachers recruited for the government schools being established in the Marathi-speaking areas of the Presidency. From then on, the Native Education Society decided to ‘adopt balbodh for all their printed books; and also in the written or current hand for letter writing and general business, respectively used in Maharashtra ... ’. However, it was impossible to resolve the matter so swiftly and the 1833 edition of Bodhvachane used both balbodh and modi types face-to-face for each page; also, education records show that both balbodh and modi scripts continued to be taught in the schools en 2024 9789357084666 10 Indian Languages and How They Came to Be Karthik Venkatesh https://books.google.co.in/books?id=V_b4EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT95 95 Marathi: Bridging the North-South Divide Penguin Random House India Private Limited The script used to write Marathi is known as Balbodh, which is similar to Devanagari, but has an extra letter to accommodate Marathi sounds. In the past, besides Balbodh, Marathi was also written in the Modi script. From around the thirteenth century till the middle of the twentieth century, while Balbodh was used for literature, Modi was the preferred script for administration and business documents. Translations variant of the Devanagari script Gujarati: gu બાળબોધ f Hindi: hi बालबोध f en Alphabets Writing systems