LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 10 October 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

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Comparative Study of Hindi and Dogri Languages with Regard to Machine Translation

Preeti Dubey, Shashi Pathania, and Devanand

Abstract

Hindi, the Official language of India, is regarded as one of the widespread languages after English and Mandarin. Hindi belongs to the Indo-Aryan (Indic) languages, and Dogri language also belongs to the same subgroup of the Indo-European family, i.e., Indo-Aryan family of languages. The script of Hindi language is Devanagari and Dogri has its own script namely, ?og?ra ?kkh?r or ?og?r; but now the younger generation has adopted nag?ri script for Dogri. As such, almost all the modern literature has been and is being written in devanag?ri. For the development of Machine Translation system from Hindi to Dogri Language, there is a need to find the similarity between both the languages. It is found that both the languages are closely related to each other.This paper explains the closeness between the Hindi and Dogri Language scripts.

Keywords: Machine Translation, International Phonetic Alphabets (IPA), Orthography

Introduction

Hindi and Dogri are closely related languages and have originated from Sanskrit. Hindi is the official language of India and is spoken and used by the people all over the country, the main regions being Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar and Chhattisgarh. On the other hand, Dogri is mainly spoken in the Jammu region of J&K State and adjoining areas of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and in the borders of Sialkot & Shakar Ghar tehsils in Pakistan. Both Hindi and Dogri use the same script i.e. Devanagri but the dialect is different. In this paper, closeness between Hindi and Dogri languages is explained which includes script, consonants, vowels, conjunct consonants, numerals, punctuation, abbreviations of the two languages.

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Preeti Dubey
Research Scholar
Department of Computer Science & IT
University of Jammu
Jammu
Jammu & Kashmir
India
preetidubey2000@yahoo.com

Shashi Pathania
Professor and Head
Dogri Department
University of Jammu
Jammu
shashipathania@gmail.com

Devanand
Professor and Head
Department of Computer Science & IT
University of Jammu
Jammu
Jammu & Kashmir
India
dpadha@rediffmail.com
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