Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Spoken Wikipedia for Indic Languages

2012-12-13 Thread Abhishek Suryawanshi
c: > Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:08:07 +0530 > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Spoken Wikipedia for Indic Languages > Good initiative Abhishek !! > > You can also try out .. > http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/ > http://silpa.org.in/TTS > > > Thanks, > Naveen Francis >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Spoken Wikipedia for Indic Languages

2012-11-16 Thread Theo10011
Ohai On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 8:54 AM, sankarshan wrote: > Ignoring the somewhat ad hominem nature of the argument, you do > realize that "Indic" is something that is used at the Unicode > Consortium to denote the group of Indo-European languages comprising > Sanskrit and the modern Indian languag

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Spoken Wikipedia for Indic Languages

2012-11-15 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/11/16 Vickram Crishna : > From recent posts, it seems that Unicode acknowledges two families of > scripts, namely Indic and Brahmic. If this is the correct situation, I see > no confusion in defining the work ahead. No - Indic scripts and Brahmic scripts are two words for the same thing, at l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Spoken Wikipedia for Indic Languages

2012-11-15 Thread Vickram Crishna
As far as this discussion is concerned, it does not seem that we need to be much bothered about the history and background. What we need to focus on is the word in its current context, so, Indic and Indian languages, with particular reference to display standards, and therefore the direction of wor

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Spoken Wikipedia for Indic Languages

2012-11-15 Thread ஆமாச்சு
On Friday 16 November 2012 09:13 AM, sankarshan wrote: The Wikipedia seems to use Indic and Brahmic scripts as synonyms of each other. Does your contention hold in that case ? well, my opinion is that these have evolved in a complimentary/ collaborative environment & certainly Tamil couldn't h

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Spoken Wikipedia for Indic Languages

2012-11-15 Thread sankarshan
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:03 AM, ஆமாச்சு wrote: > On Friday 16 November 2012 08:54 AM, sankarshan wrote: >> >> Indo-European languages comprising >> Sanskrit and the modern Indian languages that are its descendants. > > > barring Tamil :-) The Wikipedia seems to use Indic and Brahmic scripts as s

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Spoken Wikipedia for Indic Languages

2012-11-15 Thread ஆமாச்சு
On Friday 16 November 2012 08:54 AM, sankarshan wrote: Indo-European languages comprising Sanskrit and the modern Indian languages that are its descendants. barring Tamil :-) ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To u

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Spoken Wikipedia for Indic Languages

2012-11-15 Thread sankarshan
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Theo10011 wrote: > Heh, I didn't know you became a cultural authority on what words were wrong, > from the last few visit(s) to India. :P Anyway, It would be any linguist's > folly to presume the cultural context of words, without knowing the culture > and what pr

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Spoken Wikipedia for Indic Languages

2012-11-15 Thread Naveen Francis
Good initiative Abhishek !! You can also try out .. http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/ http://silpa.org.in/TTS Thanks, Naveen Francis On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Abhishek Suryawanshi < i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > In India, We have electricity a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Spoken Wikipedia for Indic Languages

2012-11-14 Thread Theo10011
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > > If he didn't explain it, then you can presume that it's wrong. There's > nothing to discuss, and there's nothing wrong with saying "Indic > languages". > Heh, I didn't know you became a cultural authority

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Spoken Wikipedia for Indic Languages

2012-11-13 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/11/13 Srikanth Ramakrishnan : > Amir, > I was merely told by someone. I was told that both words were derogatory [at > the same time, hence I mentioned both]. > If you wish to discuss this further, we can take it offlist. If he didn't explain it, then you can presume that it's wrong. There's

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Spoken Wikipedia for Indic Languages

2012-11-13 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Amir, I was merely told by someone. I was told that both words were derogatory [at the same time, hence I mentioned both]. If you wish to discuss this further, we can take it offlist. On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > 2012/11/13 Srikanth Ra

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Spoken Wikipedia for Indic Languages

2012-11-13 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/11/13 Srikanth Ramakrishnan : > P.S: I've been told that the words 'Indic' and 'Vernacular' are derogatory. Citation needed. I hope not to derail this thread, but AFAIK there's nothing derogatory in these words. I don't even know why do you mention "vernacular", which didn't appear in the ema

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Spoken Wikipedia for Indic Languages

2012-11-13 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Just a suggestion. Why not put up such projects on Meta/ Keeping them on the English wikipedia brings about a misconception that it is restricted to English. P.S: I've been told that the words 'Indic' and 'Vernacular' are derogatory. Let's say Indian languages shall we? On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12