Hi Zdenek, Thank you for your work on xindy. Here are my comments on your questions:
> 1. I do not know how to sort words with ~o (candra o). What is the > correct place for words as ~ofis, h~orn, s~of.tveyar etc in thhe Hindi > alphabet? Good question. Most likely in the same position with regard to O as CANDRA E is sorted with regard to E. How are you handling SHORT E and SHORT O? I'll look into this issue and get back to you. > 2. I know that AUM is a special symbol but imagine you are writing a > book on yoga in Hindi and wish to add AUM in the index. where should > it appear? Apte and Monier-Williams sort AUM with O. Same in Hindi dictionaries such as McGregor. > 3. If I understand it well, the Sanckrit order deffers slightly from > the Hindi order. I have the Charles Wikner's introductury book as well > Monier-Williams dictionary (both are available on the web). I can > adapt the tables according to them. Do you know specifics? > 4. I know from a member of Marathi Wikipedia that Marathi does not use > characters with nuktas (za, Ra, fa, etc) but this is the only > knowledge I have. I have also read in the book on History of India > (written in Czech by indologists) that nasalization is not usually > pronounced and thus often not written. However, I do not know whether > the alphabetic order in Marathi is the same as in Hindi. I do not know > either where is the place for La (used in kalapaa.t and probably other > words). In Molesworth's "Marathi-English Dictionary" (1831), there is the following sort order: LLA is shorted after HA. Also, KSSA and JNYA are sorted after LLA, not with KA and JA, respectively. TRA, however, is sorted with TA. A letter combined with ANUSVARA is sorted by that letter. These rules are also followed in Tulpule and Feldhaus's "A Dictionary of Old Marathi" (1999). > 5. I know nothing about alphabetic order in Nepali. >From Ruth Laila Schmidt's "A Practical Dictionary of Modern Nepali" (1993): CANDRABINDU and ANUSVARA are sorted in the same position. KSSA sorted with KA. JNYA sorted with JA, but at the end of the vowel order: ...JO JAU JNYA. TRA sorted with TA. AVAGRAHA is sorted with the vowel letter that follows it: the word A'ILA is sorted first by A then by I. Hope this is useful. Best, Anshu _______________________________________________ Devnag-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sarovar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devnag-general
