Conversion between Hindi and Urdu

Author

Shahnawaz

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput. & Inf., Saudi Electron. Univ., Dammam, Saudi Arabia

fYear

2015

fDate

15-16 May 2015

Firstpage

309

Lastpage

313

Abstract

Hindi is often contrasted with Urdu. Hindi is written in devana̅gari̅ and most of its vocabulary has been originated from Sanskrit. Urdu is written using Nastaliq calligraphy style of the Perso-Arabic script and majority of the vocabulary has evolved from Arabic and Persian. This paper discusses the similarities and dissimilarities between Hindi and Urdu languages. This paper delineates the issues in simple transliteration of Hindi to Urdu or vice versa. The paper presents the effect of differences in spellings, pronunciation and writing style on conversion. The paper lists the issues and solution to these issues which make conversion between Hindi to Urdu or Urdu to Hindi more than just simple transliteration.

Keywords

grammars; language translation; natural language processing; vocabulary; Arabic language; Devanagari; Hindi-Urdu language conversion; Nastaliq calligraphy style; Persian language; Perso-Arabic script; Sanskrit; pronunciation; spellings; transliteration; vocabulary; writing style; Automation; Dictionaries; Grammar; Mood; Pragmatics; Vocabulary; Hindi; Machine Translation; Transliteration; Urdu;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing, Communication & Automation (ICCCA), 2015 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Noida

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-8889-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCAA.2015.7148395

Filename

7148395