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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. 		user:zeman:transliteration-of-urdu-to-latin-script [2010/11/10 13:59]
zeman Attached the software.
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   * http://users.skynet.be/hugocoolens/newurdu/vowels.html   * http://users.skynet.be/hugocoolens/newurdu/vowels.html
  
 +===== Vocabulary of Frequent Words =====
 +
 +Some frequent words cannot be disambiguated by character-based rules alone but a vocabulary could identify them as existing unambiguous Urdu words and save much manual work by disambiguating them. Here are some examples:
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 +  * ہے => he
 +  * میں => meñ
 +  * ایک => ek
 +  * اور => or
 +
 +Note however that there are inherently ambiguous words that cannot be disambiguated without human intervention (or at least without looking at the neighboring words). Examples:
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 +  * تو => to | tū
 +  * اس => is | us
 +  * ان => in | un
 +
 +===== The Transliteration Script =====
 +
 +You need two files. All of the transliteration knowledge is encoded in the library ''urdund.pm''. The Perl script ''translit_urdund.pl'' merely reads the standard input, passes it through the library and sends the result to the standard output. It is called like this:
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 +<code bash>perl translit_urdund.pl < urdu.txt > latin.txt</code>
 +
 +If you happen to sit on the ÚFAL network, you will find the script in ''~zeman/projekty/transliterace''. It should be able to find the library itself; the library is in ''~zeman/lib/translit'' (you will programs and libraries for other writing systems in these two folders as well).
 +
 +I am also attaching the current snapshot of the two folders to this wiki {{:user:zeman:translit.zip|here}}. Note however that it will not be updated regularly.
 +
 +This is an example of an Urdu sentence and the romanized output by the script:
 +
 +  * آپ کو پچھلے 182 دنوں میں اپنی بیماری یا معزوری کے سبب مندرجہ ذیل میں سے کوئی ایک ملتا رہا ہے ؟
 +  * āp ko pəčhəle 182 dənoñ meñ əpənī b[yīe]mārī yā məˀəz[wūo]rī ke səbəb mənədərəjəh ż[yīe]l meñ se koī ek mələtā rəhā he ?

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