Saral Nagari

Saral (सरल) means simple. Nagari (नागरी; naagaree) is also known as DevaNagari (देवनागरी; devanaagaree). Nagari is the script used for writing most of the south asian languages.

In Nagari, it is possible to form lot of conjuncts. Scholars like handling complex things, so they may like lots of conjuncts. But lots of conjuncts are very counterproductive for reasons mentioned in this page.

Why we should keep things simple?

Following are my opinions, findings and some short of research. If you don't agree please let me/us know why you don't agree.

1.	For general public, it makes no sense to master lot of things about the script they use. A script is a medium for communicating, recording or storing information for most of the people and not a subject of expertise.
2.	It may require a little bit of more processing (time) to analyse a relatively complex syllable.
3.	Most people who use Nagari regularly can't even recite/scribe basic Nagari varnamala (वर्णमाला; alphabet; varNNamaala)! Mainly because there are more Akshars (consonants and vowel forms) in Nagari then there are letters in English.
4.	There are rules about forming syllables using consonants and vowels.
5.	There are modified (altered) consonants and vowels for accommodating Arabic and European pronunciations.

So except those conjuncts which are in general use do not push people to the point that they loose interest in Nagari. People may start thinking that Nagari is not good for regular use!

No typographer or engineer can satisfy few scholars' need for lot of conjuncts and general public's expectation of a simple script at the same time.

Conjuncts do not convey any additional information and avoiding them do not result in any loss of information.

So I don't like odd conjuncts.

The alphabet given here is a logical subset of regular DevaNagari alphabet. All Akshar/s (अक्षर; letter/s) & maatraa/s (मात्रा; vowel-mark/s; matra) representing unique phoneme are included. For a simple alphabet, Nagari seems a proper word! If you don't agree, you may call the alphabet given here as - 'Saral Nagari'!

Basic nagari varNNamaala lists all the consonants and the vowels (but no 'maatraa/s' and stress signs). It includes very few regularly used conjuncts (also known as AkhaND/s). If we start collecting all the conjuncts ever used it will run into hundreds.

Please let me know if I made any mistake in the above text.