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user:zeman:transliteration-of-urdu-to-latin-script [2010/11/10 09:38] zeman S alefem to nějak nebylo vidět, ale možná jsem měl znaky v prohozeném pořadí. |
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| - | ===== Vowel Diacritics ===== | + | The transliteration script should contain a gradually growing vocabulary that would help disambiguate known words. Otherwise there would be a very high number of ambiguous positions in any transliterated string. |
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| + | ===== Short Vowels and Diacritics ===== | ||
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| + | Without diacritics (which is more common), every consonant that is not followed by a long vowel may or may not be followed by a short vowel. I denote this possibility by the character for the neutral character schwa: //ə//. | ||
| //Warning! This section is under construction. I am still confused about the exact rules for Urdu vowel representation, | //Warning! This section is under construction. I am still confused about the exact rules for Urdu vowel representation, | ||
| Although used rarely, Urdu has means to mark the three short vowels as well. This is done using one of the three diacritical marks. Long vowels can be disambiguated as well, e.g. a consonant with the pesh mark followed by a waw without any diacritic means that the waw is a long vowel //[ūo]// but not the consonant //w//. | Although used rarely, Urdu has means to mark the three short vowels as well. This is done using one of the three diacritical marks. Long vowels can be disambiguated as well, e.g. a consonant with the pesh mark followed by a waw without any diacritic means that the waw is a long vowel //[ūo]// but not the consonant //w//. | ||
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| + | ^ Unicode ^ Unicode Name ^ Urdu Name ^ With Beh ^ Transliteration ^ | ||
| + | | 064E | ARABIC FATHA | zabar | بَ | ba | | ||
| + | | 064F | ARABIC DAMMA | pesh | بُ | bu | | ||
| + | | 0650 | ARABIC KASRA | zer | بِ | bi | | ||
| pesh (ARABIC DAMMA, 064F) ... u ... کُون //kon// “who” | pesh (ARABIC DAMMA, 064F) ... u ... کُون //kon// “who” | ||
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| zer (ARABIC KASRA, 0650) ... i ... | zer (ARABIC KASRA, 0650) ... i ... | ||
| - | Possible further reading: http:// | + | Possible further reading: |
| - | http:// | + | * http:// |
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