Indian Language Transliteration scheme

Published 06 October 07 08:06 PM | sheikd
I am interested learning new language. But it is very difficult to learn any Indian language. I fall in love with Telugu Language. It is very poetic when listening or speaking. (Our Barathiyar had written Sundara Telunginil Pattu Isaippom). Known as Mahakavi Bharathiyar (the laudatory epithet Maha Kavi meaning Great Poet in Tamil) How do I read unknown Indian language? There is tool called Om which is having good transliteration scheme. Om exploits phonetic nature of the alphabet.  Many different languages are spoken in India, each language being the mother tongue of tens of millions of people. While the languages and scripts are distinct from each other, the grammar and the alphabet are similar to a large extent.One common feature is that all the Indian languages are phonetic in nature.  Many people are working with different set of transliteration schemes. But this Om transliteration is unique. It covers as many languages Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Hindi. Om uses ASCII characters to represent Indian language alphabets, and thus can be read directly in English, by a large number of users who cannot read script in other Indian languages than their mother tongue. The development of a text editor for Indian languages that integrates the Om input for many Indian languages into a word processor such as Microsoft WinWord We can download the Om editor from the following link: http://swati.dli.ernet.in/om/ I hope this tool is good one to read other Indian languages in English.  

 

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# Bharani said on October 6, 2007 10:21 AM:

Yup! its always to gud to know more people and different language. But to me, TAMIL is the Best Ever Easiest Language since the orgin of life form ;-). Its been told by many native speakers of other language tat, TAMIL is easy to learn and write (y not, i strongly believe only in tamil we write exactly the way we produce the accent)

Vaaazhga Tamzhil

# Sathish K said on October 9, 2007 06:58 AM:

BhashaIndia.com would give more information on language computing and also on similar utilities .

More work is on Language computing for Tamil.

But the transliteration may help a little bit on knowing the language, this could not help better to learn a language.

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