Regards,Look forward to more conversations on this.The Wiktionary entry for 'Indic' is here https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/IndicWould be useful if any body can shed light on this and let us also put this up on Wikipedia.Dear Tejaswini and Friends,It is an interesting and pertinent issue. I do completely concur with Tejaswini on the problem of 'using philological classifications and terminology'. However, it will be interesting to track the history of how we have ended up with the term 'Indic', in the computing context. Do friends on the list know of any history of computing terms and how 'Indic' has come to be used?
VishnuOn 14 February 2013 09:34, Tejaswini Niranjana <teju@cscs.res.in> wrote:
Correction: by Dravidian language in Pakistan I suppose you meant Brahui, which has a couple of million speakers. Doesn't appear to be much writing in the language though. We will have to find out more.
And one more comment on your suggestion about using 'Indic-Dravidian': do remember that we have several languages in the north-east which are part of neither of these groupings, since they are from the Tibeto-Burman family of languages! This is what I meant by the problem of using philological classifications and terminology.
TN