Again, the choice of the Ra character is an obvious one as it provides the phonetic connect with Ra for Rupee (like A for Apple). ![]() If the mark is to have a semantic connect across the country, Devanagari is the only sensible choice. While the scripts of southern languages do not reflect the Devanagari infuence, it is acceptable in the south because of the legacy of Sanskrit. Besides Hindi, which is the most widely spoken language in India, variants of Devanagari are used across all the scripts in the North, including Gurmukhi, Marathi, Bengali, Assamese, etc. Of all the Indian scripts, the Devanagari is the most widely used. ![]() It is hardly a surprise, then, that a large number of the thousands of entries submitted to the competition based their designs on the Devanagari Ra. This is a fairly obvious idea - perhaps the first thing one would think of. The chosen symbol is based on the Devanagari script using the letter Ra to serve as a mnemonic for the word Rupee. How does one then reduce this diversity to a single symbol of our currency? As many as seventeen different languages are represented on its Rupee note. ![]() The Republic of India is unique in its extraordinary diversity of language and scripts.
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