[OLPC-Games] Wordsmith ( Scrabble ) :GSoC application

[Edward Cherlin]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Aditya Vishwakarma
<adi.vishwakarma at gmail.com> wrote:
> Scrabble implementation in arabic
> http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/details/arabic/
>
> other foreign language tilesets
> http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/index.html#foreignscrab

Just the thing. This list comes down to languages written in English,
Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic alphabets. I see that European
language tile sets omit accents.

I see that there is also Armenian Scrabble and Georgian Scrabble. This
makes sense, because these are simple alphabets with no joining of
letters.

The numerous languages written in Cyrillic and Arabic alphabets all
have slightly different sets of letters, and different letter
distributions. Only Arabic and Russian are supported, and not, for
example, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Mongolian and others for Cyrillic, or
Urdu, Farsi, Pashto and others for Arabic.

The nine writing systems of India, plus Burmese, Thai, Lao, Sinhalese,
Tibetan, Korean Hangeul, and Mongolian Traditional, all have complex
combing and/or stacking rules. Korean can be written linearly, as is
traditional in telegrams, but there appears to be no Korean Scrabble.

> However,  i am yet to find any implementation of scrabble in Hindi. I think
> Hindi would be a too complicated to implement but would ask some hindi
> professors i know for confirmations.

Google finds nothing.

>  On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <jpritiki at uoregon.edu>
> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:36:14PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> > >  > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Aditya Vishwakarma
> > >  > <adi.vishwakarma at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > > I am Aditya Vishwakarma. An Information Technology student at NSIT,
> Delhi.
> > >  > >
> > >  > > I am working on making a Scrabble game as a GSoC project called
> Wordsmith.
> > >  > > The wiki page is located here -
> > >  > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wordsmith(scrabble)
> > >  >
> > >  > Does Scrabble exist in Hindi or any other language of India?
> > >
> > >  Sure.
> > >
> > >  Either you place one syllable per square or separate the consonants and
> vowels
> > >  into disjoint glyphs (probably looks funny but remains readable).
> >
> > That sounds like you're making it up, since you say "probably looks
> > funny". You couldn't make a set with enough tiles to hold the several
> > hundred possible syllables, and the phonology doesn't work to combine
> > random syllables into words of any length. Hindi in separated letters
> > would look more than funny.
> >
> > होली would end up looking like ह  ो ल  ी, or
> > ह
> >  ो
> > ल
> >  ी
> >
> > I'm asking whether anybody has _seen_ Scrabble in an Indian language.
> >
> >
> > >  > I know
> > >  > how we could support Scrabble in any linear alphabetic writing such
> as
> > >  > Cyrillic alphabet, but I have trouble imagining it in Arabic,
> Chinese,
> > >  > Amharic, or Japanese kana.
> > >
> > >  I don't know what you would do with Chinese and Japanese kana.
> >
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