Are there actually any Tajik native speakers working on the Tajik Wikipedia at the moment? I'd like to discuss some software I'm making with them... http://82.133.33.43/~spectre/tajik/tajik.php I've had a look over at tg. but it seems to be very inactive. Regards, Fran

Hi Francis, I have a suggestion to improve this software: build a corpus from the Tajik RFE website http://www.ozodi.org/ As you can pretty obviously tell, not all vowels are indicated in Farsi, so in some cases there *should* be multiple candidates for transliteration. For example, Farsi "yeh" can be transliterated in a number of different ways. In these cases, a simple search of the corpus should reveal which alternative is an actual word, or which is most frequent, and select it. Mark On 28/05/06, Francis Tyers <spectre(a)ivixor.net> wrote: -- Refije dirije lanmè yo paske nou posede pwòp bato.

Also, I noticed that you seemed to use italics for what you took to be incorrect transliterations. In fact: "бднео" is an incorrect transliteration of "ба дунё", same with "лҳоз" and "лиҳози"; "ҳқвақ" and "ҳуқуқ"; "боҳм" and "бо ҳам", "бробрнд" and "баробаранд"; "ҳмҳ" and "Ҳама"; "ваҷдон" and "виҷдонанд" (except for the -and suffix); "нсбта" and "нисбат"; "бекидевор" and "ба якдигар"; and possibly even "бо рваҳ бробре" and "бародарвор". This is because not all vowels are always explicitly indicated in Farsi. The only way to know is to be a native speaker or to use a dictionary. Mark On 28/05/06, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Refije dirije lanmè yo paske nou posede pwòp bato.