Little = Chhotee
Cat == Billee
Little cat == Chhotee billee if the cat is female
Chaotaa billaa if the cat is male
If you you don't know the gender it would be Chotee billee.
There's no neutral gender in Hindi.
Chhotee - cha-ho-tee, or cho-tee, or 'ch' as in 'charidna' (buy,
purchase)?
Billee - as in 'billy', bill-ee (longer e sound)?
Regards
M. Smullen
In article <cba03d0.02121...@posting.google.com>,
क्या आप हिन्दी सीख रहे हैं?
Assuming you are a student of Hindi and under Devanagari, here are the words
in Devanagari (using Unicode/UTF-8):
chhoTee bill-lee: छोटी बिल्ली
If you can't read the Unicode, here's another way:
'chh' is like the 'ch' sound in chair but with more aspiration, somewhat
like chhair.
'o' as in the American pron. of letter 'o'
'T' like the 't' in hat (no aspiration for t)
'ee' as in 'meek' (long ee)
Your word 'charidna' (verb. purchase, buy) is usually transliterated as
'kharidnaa' (ख़रीदना). When 'ch' is used, it usually stands for 'च' as is
चमक (ch-m-k meaning the noun 'shine').
Hope this helps,
Sunil
I have a font, but since I'm a Mac user, the font may not match up with
your unicode.
Regards
Mark
In article <BAY1-DAV28e0J...@hotmail.com>,
"Sunil Bhadekar" <Use-Author-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote:
> Mark,
>
>
> ???? ?? ?????? ??? ??? ????
>
> Assuming you are a student of Hindi and under Devanagari, here are the words
> in Devanagari (using Unicode/UTF-8):
>
> chhoTee bill-lee: ???? ??????
>
> If you can't read the Unicode, here's another way:
>
> 'chh' is like the 'ch' sound in chair but with more aspiration, somewhat
> like chhair.
>
> 'o' as in the American pron. of letter 'o'
> 'T' like the 't' in hat (no aspiration for t)
> 'ee' as in 'meek' (long ee)
>
> Your word 'charidna' (verb. purchase, buy) is usually transliterated as
> 'kharidnaa' (???????). When 'ch' is used, it usually stands for '?' as is
> ??? (ch-m-k meaning the noun 'shine').
>
> Hope this helps,
> Sunil
I'll follow up on your tip about that book. Thanks again.
Mark
In article <293L9.110$zu2....@typhoon.nyu.edu>,
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/mideast/hindi/
if you take a look at it, I would really appreciate it if you could give me
some feedback on it (email me, not the group), since you are a non-native
speaker. any feedback you (or anybody actually) could give me would be
passed along to my Hindi professor and she could then add/remove/modify
things that work, dont work, etc. Thanks.
Pritesh
That's no surprise.
There are two reasons for this:
1. The lingual diversity of India means the market is very fragmented.
The number of "potential" consumers of Hindi books is therefore much
less than the HUGE Indian population in the area.
2. Very few Hindi speakers outside the Hindi area of India normally
read/write in Hindi. Hindi is only used mainly for verbal
communication or songs/poetry, wherever emotions are involved. For
everything else, English rules.
Because there are no (or very few) readers, there are obviously no
(very few) writers of Hindi works besides those for TV or movies,
which again deal with emotions and use limited words relating to
"love" and "heart".
And such is the case with most other Indian languages too; which are
also dying languages where reading material is concerned.
Other languages like Japanese, Thai, French, German or what-have-you
are used daily in their native places, are used as mediums of
instruction in schools, business communication, etc. And so there are
obviously lots of books published in these languages, and you see them
in bookstores everywhere.
Anyway, I for one, am not for artificial propping up, and if the
future of India (and perhaps the world) is English, so be it. Although
we'll have to do something about the non-phonetic spellings of that
particular language :-)
Cheers,
Sunil
Why don't you present the Hindi content on your website using an
encoding standard like Unicode (UTF-8) instead of using a proprietary
format? This is the fast emerging standard for Indian language
content. Take a look at some sample sites like the BBC Hindi website
(http://www.bbchindi.com) or the Google Hindi edition
(http://www.google.com/intl/hi/). There are many benefits to using
this standard; for instance:
1. Native OS support for both viewing and editing: Hindi pages can be
viewed without any downloads on Windows/Linux. Windows 2K/XP natively
support Hindi Unicode editing. There are applications like Yudit on
Linux which support Hindi Unicode editing.
2. Search facilities using common search engines: When users enter
Hindi Unicode queries at Google for example, links to your pages will
show up if they contain those words.
3. Font independence
- Sunil
Pritesh,
That's because Unicode does not define or need to define any conjuncts. It
is simply an encoding of content, not of the display. Here are some
examples:
1. kta is encoded as ka+halant+ta (क्त = क+्+त)
2. ksha is encoded as ka+halant+sha (क्ष = क+्+ष)
The display of the encoded content is handled by the TTF OpenType font like
Mangal for example.
Also, how you type in these conjuncts depends on the keyboard layout you are
using.
This is just FYI, not to persuade you to change to Unicode. Although I think
the fact that the site won't be searchable using Google will be a major
disadvantage in terms of loss of potential viewership.
Cheers,
Sunil
Anyway, I'll look for the keymap and post it in the next few days..
- Sunil
"Pritesh Patel" <pkp...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<Us1M9.139$zu2....@typhoon.nyu.edu>...
Here's the INSCRIPT keymap for use with takhti. Back up the hindi.map
file supplied by takhti (in the takhti.exe directory) and replace it
with the map below. The filename should be hindi.map.
Cheers,
Sunil
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