I mean scripts like Shavian or Quikscript. Are these script useful to you in your day-to-day life? How are they better than the original scripts of your language?

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    Hindi and many other Indian regional languages frequently use the Latin script on electronic devices for casual communication.

    For example, Kya haal hai -> क्या हाल है? -> how’s it going?

    I don’t even know how to type the original script version.

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      No, I wasn’t talking about this - this is basically romanization of Hindi, because phones with Hindi keyboards weren’t a thing back then, and it kinda stayed that way.

      What I meant was the constructed language system, like for example, the Bharati script, or the Manjikana system of writing.

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        From the perspective of a Hindi speaker Latin might as well be a constructed alphabet. It has less similarities to Devanagari than any other Indian writing system. It seems to organically fill the same role that constructed systems were meant for