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Hindi and Urdu are mutually comprehensible languages written in mutually incomprehensible scripts and spoken by more than 600 million people in India and Pakistan. Over the time, with the influence of Persian in Urdu and Sanskrit in Hindi, the vocabularies of the two languages have also become different though they still share more than 70% of common words. Though, the grammar of the two languages is still same. This project is a culmination of twelve years of academic research and literacy development both in the UK and the development of languages in Pakistan and India. The aim of the partnership is to facilitate electronic and written communication between people living in India and Pakistan through the development of a bi-directional web based Hindi-Urdu Language Transliteration/Translation Tool. The target groups will be Media organisations (such as magazines/newspapers), literary and literacy promotional organizations, writers and NGOs involved in dissemination activity amongst the urban and rural poor, virtual Hindi-Urdu speaking communities, schools and colleges. The intellectual background to this work has already been completed via a grant from the EU, Asia-ITC programme. The Punjabi University at Patiala has also developed Gurmukhi to Shahmukhi(Urdu) and reverse Transliteration softwares. Punjabi University is also currently working on development of Urdu-Hindi Transliteration tool through a funded research project. This project will develop the complementary Hindi to Urdu Transliteration Tool as well as a complete machine translation system between Hindi and Urdu languages as facilitate use of these technologies on the web, thus enhancing networking between India and Pakistan. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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South Asia is one of those unique parts of the world where single languages are written in different scripts.This is the case for example with Urdu and Hindi spoken by hundreds of millions of people, but written in India (500 million) in Devnagri script (a Left to Right script) and in Pakistan (80 million), it is written in Urdu (a Right to Left script based on Arabic). In spoken form Hindi and Urdu are mutually comprehensible languages but they are written in mutually incomprehensible scripts and spoken by more than 600 million all over the world. Over the time, with the influence of Persian in Urdu and Sanskrit in Hindi, the vocabularies of the two languages have also become different though they still share more than 70% of common word and the grammar of the two languages is still same. The project aims to bring the Urdu and Hindi speaking people closer by developing a transliteration/translation tool for the two languages. We aim to provide a tool that will help people in the two countries to link across a hostile geographical divide. In so doing we will provide an ITC solution to a social problem that had seemed insurmountable for centuries. The problem of communication between Hindi and Urdu languages has long been a social barrier between the Muslim populations of India and the majority Hindi public. In addition it is one of the main barriers to people to people contact between India and Pakistan. This project will address this problem through the development of a web based transliteration/ translation system. The option of a transliteration component is to enable the well developed poetic verse in the Urdu language is to be available to the Hindi literate public. The translation tool will enable the Hindi and Urdu literate people to convert the Urdu websites to Hindi and reverse, enabling them to read them in their languages. This will facilitate electronic and written communication between people living in India and Pakistan through the development of a bi-directional web based Hindi-Urdu Language Transliteration/Translation Tool. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Development of a web based software package for automatic machine transliteration/translation between Hindi and Urdu languages with following features
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