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--- user:zeman:transliteration-of-urdu-to-latin-script [2010/11/09 15:02]
zeman wy
+++ user:zeman:transliteration-of-urdu-to-latin-script [2010/11/09 15:34]
zeman Alef.
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   * In word-final position, I assume that the only possible reading is //ī//.
   * In all other cases I output //[yīe]//.
+The letter ے (YEH BARREE) only appears in word-final position and is transliterated as //e// (which is written in other positions using the ambiguous ی).
+The letter ا (ALEF) is ambiguous and can lead to many different readings:
+  * In word-initial position, it merely says that the word begins with a vowel. It could be any of the three short vowels //[aiu]//: افریقہ //afrīqah// “Africa”, اسلام //islām// “Islam”, اردو //urdū// “Urdu”.
+    * If word-initial ا is followed by و or ی, they together could represent a word-initial long vowel //[ūoīe]//, such as in ایک //ek// “one”. In this case, ا should map to an empty string (because the next character itself will allow for transliteration by the long vowel).
+  * In word-internal and word-final positions, ا is transliterated to the long vowel //ā// (pronounced as //a// in English //father//).
+The letter آ (ALEF MADDA) only appears in word-initial position and is transliterated as //ā// (which is written in other positions using normal ا).

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