Talk:Ranjana script

The Ranjana script is not used to write Tibetan

Although the Ranjana script is used by Tibetans to write Sanskrit, it is not used by Newars or Tibetans to write the Tibetan language. The Ranjana script lacks several consonants required to write Tibetan: Tibetan letters ca (U+0F45), cha (U+0F46), ja (U+0F47), zha (U+0F5E), za (U+0F5F) and 'a (U+0F60). (Note: the Ranjana and Devanagri letters ca, cha, ja, and jha are transcribed in Tibetan as the Tibetan letters tsa (U+0F59), tsha (U+0F5A), dza (U+0F5B) and dzha (U+0F5C) respectively.) I am therefore removing the erroneous references to the Ranjana script being used to write Tibetan from the article.

There is a Tibetan script called Pungchen, modeled on Ranjana / Lanydza (and at first glance easily mistaken for Ranjana) which is occasionally used for writing Tibetan.

Chris Fynn (talk) 16:23, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Merge

Both this article and Lanydza script explain that it is essentially the same script, so there should clearly be only one article about it. --Latebird (talk) 15:24, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

And yet the experts - such as this guy http://www.lantsha-vartu.org/ - suggest that they are not the same script. Similar but with significant differences. mahaabaala (talk) 12:53, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

But, although he has clearly done a tremendous amount of work making Lanytsha and Vartu fonts, in the end that "guy" is an amateur (in the best sense of that term) expert and http://www.lantsha-vartu.org/ is his self-published site. On that web-site he cites no reliable source which states that they they are sufficiently different or divergent to be normally classified as separate scripts. There are also significant differences between e.g. Roman , Fraktur, Uncial, Insular and other forms of the Latin script but in the end they are usually classified as one script or writing system (Latin script) with different glyph forms (though they do have their own individual Wikipedia articles).
Incidentally, several sources actually cited in the present article (e.g. Omniglot.org, www.dharma-haven.org, www.teachingsofthebuddha.com and Jwajalapa) also suffer from the same problem of being self-published sources which are really not good enough for a Wikipedia article.
Chris Fynn (talk) 10:06, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

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