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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:08:07 +0530
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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.suryawanshi@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

In India, We have electricity and internet problems, and even Offline Wikipedia also shows limitation if person is unable to read/person with disabilities to read..

It may be useful to have basic health related Indic articles covered on Spoken Wikipedia.
It will create general awareness about common diseases like Diabetics, Cancer, Dengue etc.

(Multimedia) Mobile Phones penetration in rural area is high, and Indic Language Spoken articles can be circulated easily via chain messaging or via operators. 

Please have a look at - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spoken_Wikipedia/Indic_Languages

What do you think?

Best Regards,

Abhishek Suryawanshi,
User:AbhiSuryawanshi
On Behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune 

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On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Theo10011 <de10011@gmail.com> 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 precedes the word. I suppose this should give Anirudh the same
> authority to instruct what words are wrong in context of your homeland,
> incognizant of any political undertones and cultural issues?

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 languages that are its descendants.



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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 :-)


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On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:03 AM, ஆமாச்சு <amachu@amachu.net> 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 synonyms of
each other. Does your contention hold in that case ?

Admittedly, we are a bit off the original topic.


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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 have existed in seclusion any-time in the past.

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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 work needed to ensure that pages can display correctly on as many devices as follow the standards.

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.

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On Nov 16, 2012 9:25 AM, "ஆமாச்சு" <amachu@amachu.net> wrote:

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 have existed in seclusion any-time in the past.

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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:25:35 +0200
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2012/11/16 Vickram Crishna <vvcrishna@radiophony.com>:
> 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 least in Unicode documents.

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