Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] additions - Indian Languages question

2013-02-15 Thread Niraj Suryawanshi
's Turing Award Lecture > > -- > *From:* BalaSundaraRaman <[hidden > email]<http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4996419&i=1> > > > *To:* Wikimedia India Community list <[hidden > email]<http://user/SendEmail.jt

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] additions - Indian Languages question

2013-02-14 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
> From: BalaSundaraRaman > To: Wikimedia India Community list > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 3:56 PM > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] additions - Indian Languages question > > I don't know the actual history of the term 'Indic'. However, I know pieces &g

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] additions - Indian Languages question

2013-02-14 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
ruth generally admitted." >- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > > >> >> From: Vishnu t >>To: Wikimedia India Community list >>Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:14 PM >>Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] additions - Indian Languages question

2013-02-14 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
ion of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > > From: Vishnu t >To: Wikimedia India Community list >Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:14 PM >Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] additio

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] additions - Indian Languages question

2013-02-14 Thread sankarshan
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Vishnu t wrote: > However, it will be interesting to track the history of how we have ended up > with the term 'Indic', Why will this be an interesting activity ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay __

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] additions - Indian Languages question

2013-02-14 Thread വിശ്വപ്രഭ
It is by 1877 that the Europeans started studying and classifying the scripts of oriental languages especially, South Asian and East Asian. Probably Holle did the first attempt of cataloging the Sanskrit and its apparently descending languages within the Indian subcontinent and beyond. Please se

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] additions - Indian Languages question

2013-02-14 Thread Vishnu t
Dear Tejaswini and Friends, It is an interesting and pertinent issue. I do completely concur with Tejaswini on the problem of 'using philological classifications and terminology'. However, it will be interesting to track the history of how we have ended up with the term 'Indic', in the computing c

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] additions - Indian Languages question

2013-02-13 Thread Tejaswini Niranjana
Correction: by Dravidian language in Pakistan I suppose you meant Brahui, which has a couple of million speakers. Doesn't appear to be much writing in the language though. We will have to find out more. And one more comment on your suggestion about using 'Indic-Dravidian': do remember that we have