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Hindi. Hindi writing System Hindi Morphology Resources. Hindi Writing System. written in Devanagari Script w ritten from left to write Lacks distinct letter cases and is recognizable by a horizontal line running along the top of the letters that links them together
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Hindi Hindi writing System Hindi Morphology Resources
Hindi Writing System written in Devanagari Script written from left to write Lacks distinct letter cases and is recognizable by a horizontal line running along the top of the letters that links them together Eg: लड़का (Boy) Principle of devangiri each letter represents a consonant, which carries an inherent Vowel a Eg:The letter ल is read la, the two letters लड़ arelada , the three लड़का areladaka etc. Vowels other than the inherent a are written with diacritics (termedmatras). Eg: using क ka, the following forms can be derived: के ke (लडके-boys),कीki (लड़की-girl) .etc...
Morphology • Word order – SOV Examples Normal sentences English- svo : John teaches English Hindi - sov : john English teaches Imperative Sentences English – Verb Place Adverb : go there now Hindi - Subject Adverb Verb: there now go Questions English -Adverb Auxverb Subject Verb : what are you writing? Hindi -Subject Adverb Verb : you what write?
unlike English, There are no Articles in Hindi only articleused is (एक “ek” a/an) • Interrogative what ( kya ) can be used to turn a statement into yes/no question • Genders are of two types masculine and feminine Verbs verbs in Hindi are inflected with respect to • Gender • No Of Subject • Action • Tense
Usually verbs are referred to as a noun form which ends in na. Eg: Verb Stem Jana – to Speakja Lena – to take le Dena – to give de Pronouns Hindi has pronouns in the first, second and third person for one gender only. The verb, upon conjugation, usually indicates the difference in the gender. Eg : jarahi hai – She Goes jaraha hai –He goes
Second person of pronoun (you) has 3 levels of honorifics आप-Formal and respectable form for you तुम- Informal form of you तू-Extremely informal form of you Case • It is weakly inflected • Usually there are 2 types Direct and Indirect • If a Noun is followed by a post-position then its indirect else its Direct Eg :लड़का (ladaka) = boy Singular ladaka (direct) ladake (indirect) Plural ladake(direct) ladakon (indirect) = boys
Resources • Entrans : a Hindi writing system (Web Tool) • Gate (Java package )from university of Sheffield. Papers which I browsed • Creation of English and Hindi Verb Hierarchies and their Application to Hindi WordNetBuilding and English-Hindi MT by Vishwanath • Syntactic Alternations of Hindi Verbs with Reference to the Morphological Paradigm DebasriChakrabarti