Navlipi 1: A New, Universal, Script (Alphabet) Accommodating The Phonemic Idiosyncrasies of All World s Languages. Volume 1, Another Look At Phonic and Phonemic Classification Prasanna Chandrasekhar, Branden Books, USA (2012). 622 pages.

This amazing book is a welcome addition to the literature on phonetics. It addresses meticulously the problems of phonemic idiosyncrasy across language families. Previous research and books on phonetics have mostly focused on a particular phonetics system of a language. This book sheds light on the world of phonetics; it pays formal attention to phonemic idiosyncrasy by examining and considering the problems in all the world’s languages. Most of the materials discussed in the book are suitable for all levels of readers, i.e. from a beginner student of linguistics to the layman. However, I think there are some chapters, mostly in part three, for which need readers to have a basic knowledge of phonetics before reading them so that they can then easily follow the discussion.