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	Indic languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Indic titles and input using VB6.0 Source code, binaries, and instructions for software development involving utf-8 encoding with Indic scripts.
		KATR Language Morphology Morphological analysis of indic languages Sanskrit and Pali as well as Yiddish, Turkish and Latin.
		Indic Fingerspelling Project Project to devise a common fingerspelling system for the Indian subcontinent, bridging the Hindi, Bengali, Gujurati, Punjabi and other sign languages of India.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Indic_languages.html (307 words)

	introduction to indic scripts
		Although the Indic scripts are often described as similar there is a large amount of variation at the detailed implementation level.
		Because there is typically a letter for each of the phonemes in an Indic language, the alphabet tends to be quite large.
		The treatment of combining characters in Indic scripts also necessitates the use of context-based rules in the font to ensure the correct positioning and behaviour of displayed glyphs (a glyph being the visual representation of an underlying character).
	people.w3.org /rishida/scripts/indic-overview (6218 words)

	Indo-Aryan languages -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Indo-Aryan languages form a subgroup of the (The branch of the Indo-European family of languages including the Indic and Iranian language groups) Indo-Iranian languages, thus belonging to the (The family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia) Indo-European family of languages.
		All the (Any of the vernacular Indic languages of north and central India (as distinguished from Sanskrit) recorded from the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD) Prakrits share a common ancestry, but they are not necessarily mutually intelligible.
		However, (The language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms) Persian was soon displaced by (The official literary language of Pakistan, closely related to Hindi; widely used in India (mostly by Moslems); written in Arabic script) Urdu.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/in/indo-aryan_languages1.htm (1011 words)

	Microsoft Office Assistance: Word features for Indic languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The editing methods used to insert and delete Indic language characters are based on the progression that forms characters with their associated diacritics, tone marks, and accents.
		Indic languages follow stringent grammatical rules that dictate which textual character elements are allowed next to one another in the composition of words.
		Indic language number formats are used in several circumstances in Microsoft Word documents.
	office.microsoft.com /en-us/assistance/HP010366921033.aspx (770 words)

	Challenges in Supporting Indic Scripts in the Solaris Operating System
		In addition, there are numerous dialects or minor languages that share scripts with these major languages, but are different in combination as well as display and sorting.
		Unfortunately this is not the case with Indic scripts, where standards either do not exist or are in the process of evolving.
		In addition, including support for Indian languages has other special challenges, such as the lack of font standardization and the lack of uniform typographic framework across Windows and UNIX (including UNIX variants), the two main platforms on which Indian desktop applications run.
	developers.sun.com /dev/gadc/technicalpublications/articles/indic.html (1984 words)

	History of Indian Languages
		It referred to the mixed Western Hindi-Urdu language that developed in the camps and marketplaces around Delhi, was spread throughout India from the 16th to 18th century, and functioned as a lingua franca among the different language groups.
		Other significant Indic languages include Sinhalese, the official language of Sri Lanka; and Romani, the language of the Roma (Gypsies), which originated in India and was spread throughout the world.
		Linguists consider the Munda languages to be related to the Mon-Khmer languages of Southeast Asia in a larger grouping called the Austro-Asiatic family.
	www.diehardindian.com /demogrph/moredemo/histlang.htm (999 words)

	[PRC] Linux in Hindi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In contrast, rendering Indic scripts using PostScript or TrueType fonts requires encoding the conjuncts directly in the text stream, rather than the letters composing them, and requires non-standard software to translate between the sequence of letters from the keyboard and the sequence of conjunct characters in a non-standard font.
		Languages like Urdu and Sindhi have right-to-left scripts which look similar to Arabic but are, in fact, different, argues Prakash Advani who some years back launched the FreeOS.com initiative.
		If there are apps in indic, the OS vendors will build the fundamental capabilities into the OS, and if the capabilities are built in, there will be more apps." "English has been de-facto language for software development as well as usage.
	mail.sarai.net /pipermail/prc/2002-December/001832.html (5484 words)

	AllRefer.com - Prakrit (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
		Prakrit[prA´krit] Pronunciation Key, any of a number of languages belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Indo-Iranian).
		The Prakrits are usually classified as Middle Indic languages that followed the Old Indic stage of Sanskrit and Vedic but preceded the Modern Indic period.
		Pali, a Middle Indic language that became the language of the Buddhists and their sacred literature, is considered a Prakrit by some scholars, though not by all.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Prakrit.html (441 words)

	FAQ - Indic Scripts and Languages
		ISCII was evolved by a standardization committee under the Department of Electronics during 1986-88, and adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) in 1991.
		A: Indic languages can be input via a traditional keyboard, with a proper keyboard mapping.
		Collation in general must proceed at the level of language or language variant, not at the script or codepoint levels.
	www.unicode.org /faq/indic.html (3101 words)

	Indo-Iranian languages -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Indo-Aryan (Indic) languages are spoken by some 800 million persons in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, and other areas of the Himalayan region.
		Iranian languages are spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and parts of Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, and scattered areas of the Caucasus Mountains.
		The Slavic languages are most closely related to the languages of the Baltic group (Lithuanian, Latvian, and the now-extinct Old Prussian), but they share certain linguistic innovations with the other eastern Indo-European...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9109769 (828 words)

	Introduction to Indic languages : Globalizing your e-business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Along with the number of languages and scripts involved, Indic languages provide challenges to developers because of their complexity and orthographic nature.
		The name for ‘halant’ varies among the languages, and is known as the VIRAMA in the Unicode Standard (http://www.unicode.org/).
		As additional experience is gained with the use of Unicode for Indic languages, refinements to the standard are being added for incorporation into future versions of the standard.
	www-306.ibm.com /software/globalization/topics/indic/components.html (437 words)

	Indic language fonts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For other Indic languages at the South Asia Studies Department of the University of Pennsylvania, see here.
		The font DV1-TTYogesh Normal is a Latin font used to represent Indic languages (loaded with diacritics).
		Rhino (2001) is a free font by Andrew Glass for the British Library/ University of Washington Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project, Seattle Washington, for Kharosthi, based on the handwriting of the scribe of the Rhinoceros Sutra.
	jeff.cs.mcgill.ca /~luc/indic.html (6924 words)

	Events :: Bhasha Workshops : Chennai Report
		One indicator of Microsoft's growing fascination for Unicode and Indic computing and its craving to reach to the grassroots of India is vividly exhibited from the workshops that it is organizing throughout India.
		The importance of language groups and their 3 types and how it can be installed was also shown.
		The different data types for Indic language in SQL Server, MS-Access,.NET,C and C++ and the string comparison and sorting functions of SQL, Win 32 and.NET, that he pointed out was beneficial for the group of developers in the gathering.
	www.bhashaindia.com /events/rlsd/rlsdchennaireport.aspx (2345 words)

	Indic-Computing Workshop: Bangalore, Sep 15th-16th, 2002. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The main purpose of this workshop is build a community of people working in the space of developing local language development tools, applications, and content, to better coordinate their ideas and approaches towards the future of indic-computing.
		Discuss various local language toolkits and APIs, the functionality they provide, and the appropriate ways for those technologies to be included in the future from an application and OS perspective.
		Some of the language groups already formed at the workshop are: Please note () indicates Group coordinator, all communication for the particular language* should be routed to him/her.
	indic-computing.sourceforge.net /events.sep15th2002.html (2021 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Indo-Iranian pt. 4
		You have reached the fourth page of Indo-Iranian languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana.
		updated 9-15-2003 The Indic Branch (I-E) is a sub-branch of the Indo-Iranian sub-branch of the Indo-European branch of the Indo-Hittite family of languages.
		It is not to be confused with "Indic Languages (of the Indic subcontinent)", of which Indo-Hittite is only one of four families included.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/indirn4h.htm (526 words)

	ipedia.com: Sanskrit Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The knowledge of Sanskrit was a marker of social class and educational attainment, and was closely governed by the analyses of grammarians.
		Sanskrit is a highly inflected language with three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, neuter) and three numbers (singular, plural, dual).
		Especially among elite circles in India, Sanskrit is prized as a storehouse of scripture and the language of prayers in Hinduism.
	www.ipedia.com /sanskrit.html (2329 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing SurFamily
		You have reached the page introducing Sur-Family Groups, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana.
		Although a great many European languages are indeed Indo-Hittite, there are also (or have been in the past) languages spoken in Europe belonging to the Aquitanian/Basque, Caucasian, Etruscan, and Ural-Altaic families of languages.
		The other, broader meaning is inclusive of all languages spoken in the Indian subcontinent, which fall into the Indo-Hittite, Dravidian, Austric, and Sino- Tibetan families.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/surfamgh.htm (1591 words)

	KhmerOS - Software
		Using Khmer script (and many other Indic languages) in computers is more complicated than using languages that apply standard Latin encoding (such as Spanish or French), as fonts have to be interpreted, characters placed in the right place (reordered) and many exceptions handled.
		Among these, there are some that seem to be well adapted to the goals of this project, as they already supports many Indic complex scripts (such as Thai, Hindi or Kannada, not very different from Khmer in complication) and are being translated to many languages, so the mechanics of translation are very well developed.
		As with user interfaces, the state of internationalization of office and Internet applications is already very high, including support for some Indic languages, which simplifies the work.
	www.khmeros.info /modules/khmeros_software.html (1397 words)

	Microsoft Office Assistance: About Indic language features in Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The date and time format used for each Indic language is determined by the calendar chosen.
		When a Indic language is the installed (installed language: The base language used that governs how several language characteristics will behave, such as the language of the primary dictionary, and the direction and alignment of text (left-to-right or right-to-left).) language, the predominate Indic calendar for that language will be the default calendar used
		Indic languages follow stringent grammatical rules that dictate which textual character elements are permitted to stand next to one another in the composition of words.
	office.microsoft.com /da-dk/assistance/HP010366351033.aspx (500 words)

	KDE/Qt Gain Increased Support for Indic Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		With the release of Trolltech's Qt 3.2.0 beta1, the upcoming KDE 3.2 has gained increased support for Indic languages both in terms of rendering and text input.
		Indic languages were pretty much the only set of languages that were not supported very well by Qt, but were supported quite well by pango.
		Two per cent of the world's languages are becoming extinct every year and four european languages comprise more than 80 per cent of all book translations.
	dot.kde.org /1053201681 (1397 words)

	Features: Indic OpenType specification
		When using the MANGAL font to produce illustrations, the "Devanagari" script was active, and the Hindi language was chosen.
		All previous features have dealt with language features only, dedicated to forming glyph shapes dictated by the languages.
		Since the language features do not limit typographical processing here, Uniscribe passes the entire syllable to the OTL Services library.
	www.microsoft.com /typography/otfntdev/indicot/features.htm (2014 words)

	BhashaIndia.com :: OS level
		Since all Indic Languages are Unicode-only Languages, presently, Indic languages are supported only on Windows 2000 and WindowsXP operating systems.
		Once Indic language support has been enabled in the OS, we can select any one of the available Indic languages as User Locale.
		Once Languages tab is selected click on the 'Details' tab to install different input locales or Keyboards.
	www.bhashaindia.com /Developers/indianlang/indicscript/oslevel.aspx (708 words)

	Literature in Indic Languages (from Indian literature) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The name is often applied to those imaginative works of poetry and prose distinguished by the intentions of their authors and the excellence of their execution.
		Literature may be classified according to a variety of systems, including language, national origin, historical period, genre, and subject matter.
		The language of the Aryans was Sanskrit, which eventually became the classic literary language of Hinduism, the leading religion of India.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-202577 (920 words)

	Indic languages on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		group of languages belonging to the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages.
		OCLC IS NOW HOST OF INDIC LANGUAGE CATALOGING SERVICE IN EUROPE.
		Indic studies center at UMass celebrates second anniversary
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/i/indiclan.asp (240 words)

	BAAL/CUP Seminar Report 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The aim of the seminar was to bring together researchers into the Indic languages in Britain, in order to examine three themes: language change in the Indic languages, literacies and literacy practices among Indic language speakers, and educational and resources issues.
		The goal is to collect a corpus of 86 million words in 14 Indic languages, and to develop standardised fonts using UNICODE. Andrew Hardie (University of Lancaster) described his work on a part-of-speech tagset devised for Urdu using a modified version of the EAGLES standards for Western European languages.
		The expertise of community members on EMAG teams was sometimes overlooked, leading to a sense of marginalisation, and she declared a need for more researchers who share the background of the researched community.
	www.baal.org.uk /seminar_302.htm (716 words)

	Transliteration of Indic scripts: How to use ISO 15919 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Opening a printed copy of the international standard ISO 15919 Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters, available from National Standards Bodies, it might seem to be rather complicated because of the amount of information, the choices to be made for a transliteration, and the number of tables.
		This site also provides further information on the transliteration of Indic scripts, some of which is not given in ISO 15919 (such as the relation to Unicode).
		Characters, glyphs, and elements of an Indic script: what is to be transliterated?
	homepage.ntlworld.com /stone-catend/trind.htm (289 words)

	FrKeys - Indic Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As with all languages, most of the Indic letters are placed on the key whose English letter corresponds most closely.
		Though the Indic writing systems are in some ways the most complicated that FrKeys supports, they map in a fairly logical way to the English keyboard, and so should be easy to learn.
		Combinations of Shift, Ctrl and Alt are used to distinguish between several letters and symbols that are similar to one English letter.
	www.frkeys.com /doc/lang_indic.html (335 words)

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