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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.
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