MNCH (was: magic natlang corpus harvesting)
| From: | Emily Zilch <emily0@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 27, 2004, 17:35 |
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{ 20040527,0304 | Danny Wier }
"I got 2.78 million hits for Arabic /la:/ 'no' (a ligature) with pretty
high precision. For Hindi, there are 40,700 pages with /hai/ 'he/she/it
is', but there may be some other Devanagari-script languages involved."
The ligature LA+ALIF is used with great frequency in Farsi. In fact, I
bet it appears in every Arabic-alifba-using natlang.
Of course, there may be a qualitative difference in the encoding since
Farsi et al. use a different handwriting style, the so-called KUFIC or
"horizontal" script, while Arabic(s) and African natlang alifba
borrowers use the "vertical" script, but this may appear in coding
simply as a font choice.
em'ly
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