Well, I don't know if Jim has any more, but issue #2 of Building Letters was about and for India, and it has some Indian-themed typefaces that come with it. Plus, the money goes to good causes in that country.

Also, MyFonts.com might help.

http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/scripts.html

A bit more detail on the project would be useful

It's for food packaging in Europe (flavour descriptor), so it's both for visual appeal and Native tongue. But primaraily the customers aren't going to be able to read it, but just in case they are Indian I want to make it say something sensible. Put it this way, you see people walking around with 'chinese' tatoos that mean nothing in reality, I don't want the embarrasment of this to happen especially on a mass produced product. I think i'll go with Hindu as it's the majority language in India and many indian peoples second language too. Space is tight so this is a fair comprimise I feel.

For an overview of the number of languages spoken in India, see the Ethnologue country report. Note that linguists regularly disagree over what constitutes a language versus a dialect, so it is impossible to get an accurate count of languages per se. The most widely spoken language in India is Hindi, but in some provinces the majority language is likely to be something else. For instance, the Marathi language in Maharashtra, or Bengali in Bengal (and neighbouring Bangladesh). To my knowledge there are thirteen scripts used in India, including Latin and Arabic. Hindi and Marathi are written in the Devanagari script. Often, outside India, you will see packaging or local signage that reflects language and script of the dominant immigrant community or communities, and this may not be Hindi. In the east end of London, for example, you will see a lot of Bengali; in other places (including here in Vancouer) you will see a lot of Punjabi written in the Gurmukhi script.

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