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--- user:zeman:transliteration-of-urdu-to-latin-script [2010/11/10 14:18]
zeman New vowels with hamza.
+++ user:zeman:transliteration-of-urdu-to-latin-script [2010/11/16 08:21]
zeman
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 ====== Transliteration of Urdu to Latin Script ======
+Copyright © 2010 by Dan Zeman <zeman@ufal.mff.cuni.cz>
+License: GNU GPL
+This research has been supported by the grant of the Czech Ministry of Education no. MSM0021620838.
 ===== Transliteration versus Transcription =====
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 ===== Consonants =====
-Most of the consonants do not pose any serious problem. I decided to represent the retroflex consonants (ٹ, ڈ, ڑ) by a dot below their dental or other counterparts, as is usual across the Indo-Aryan languages. A dot above a letter distinguishes a two Arabic letters whose Urdu pronunciation is identical to other letters, from transliteration of those other letters (ث, ذ). Similarly, a cedilla below a letter distinguishes other five letters that occur in words of Arabic descent (ح, ص, ض, ط, ظ).
+Most of the consonants do not pose any serious problem. I decided to represent the retroflex consonants (ٹ, ڈ, ڑ) by a dot below their dental or other counterparts, as is usual across the Indo-Aryan languages. A dot above a letter distinguishes two Arabic letters whose Urdu pronunciation is identical to other letters, from transliteration of those other letters (ث, ذ). Similarly, a cedilla below a letter distinguishes five other letters that occur in words of Arabic descent (ح, ص, ض, ط, ظ).
 Some other notes: //j// is pronounced as in English, not as in Czech or German. //č// and //š// are used in Baltic and Slavic languages (among others) to represent the sounds that are usually written “ch” or “sh”, respectively, in English. Of similar descent is the character //ž//; the corresponding sound is sometimes represented as “zh” in English and corresponds to the French pronunciation of //j//. //x// represents (in accord with phonetic tradition) the same sound as Czech/German/Scottish “ch”. English-oriented transcriptions of Arabic often transcribe this sound as “kh”, a solution that we want to avoid. It would conflict with the aspirated //kh// of Urdu. //ğ// is taken from Turkish and describes the sound that is often transcribed “gh” from Arabic (which we cannot use, again because of the aspirated //gh//).
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 ===== Short Vowels and Diacritics =====
-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//.
+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 vowel schwa: //ə//.
 //Warning! This section is under construction. I am still confused about the exact rules for Urdu vowel representation, so I also expect more errors to occur here.//
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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).
+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 find 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.
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   * 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 ?
+Afterwards, a speaker of Urdu is supposed to edit the transliteration and disambiguate all remaining cases:
+  * āp ko p**ə**čh**ə**le 182 d**ə**noñ meñ **ə**p**ə**nī b**[yīe]**mārī yā m**ə**ˀ**ə**z**[wūo]**rī ke s**ə**b**ə**b m**ə**n**ə**d**ə**r**ə**j**ə**h ż**[yīe]**l meñ se koī ek m**ə**l**ə**tā r**ə**hā he ?
+    * Of alternatives in brackets, one has to be selected. Sometimes the brackets do not list all possibilities but they are easy to guess. For instance, [yīe] should in fact be [əyə|ī|e].
+    * The schwa //ə// is a shortcut for [aiu] or an empty string (no vowel here).

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