[OLPC India] Languages covered by Devanagari

[Chris Leonard]

Walter,

As Arjun mentions, I've been following up on Devanagari keyboard questions
that remain for my "keyboard naming" proposal.  He's been kind enough to ask
around.

Two general classes seem to emerge.

a) One keyboard will serve (mostly) one language in many countries. I've
proposed to name by OLPC_*Language*_Keyboard formula.

For example OLPC_Spanish_Keyboard will do service in many countries in Latin
Americas, perhaps side-by-side with indigenous language keyboards.

b) One keyboard will serve several languages, typically found in that blend
in one (or a few) country(ies). Name as OLPC_*Country*_Keyboard.

For example OLPC_Nigeria_Keyboard (serves Igbo, Youruba, Hausa languages)

The use of script/alphabet as a naming convention is less desirable as there
are so many sub-variations on Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, etc.

It looks to me that the Devanagari keyboard falls into the second category
and perhaps should be named OLPC_India_Keyboard.

India is home to an unusually rich collection of languages and I can easily
imagine there being multiple keyboards designed purely for the purpose of
deployments within India.  At that time, the convention could be adapted by
the simple addition of numbering OLPC_India_Keyboard1, OLPC_India_Keyboard2
or other means.
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Arjun Sarwal <arjun at laptop.org> wrote:

> Our idea is to document the languages covered by the various keyboard
> layouts and make that a part of the respective Keyboard Layouts wiki
> pages.
>
> Also
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Conventions#Keyboard_Layouts_page_naming.2Ftagging_proposal
> has been proposed by cjl.
>
> Please let us know your thoughts/suggestions.
>
>
> thanks
> Arjun
>
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:31 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I don't recall the original purpose of the question, but although the
> > Devanagari script is used for many languages, please note that many of
> > these prefer unique keyboard layouts, e.g., Nepali.
> >
> > -walter
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> > > Manusheel Gupta wrote:
> > >  > Sanskrit language will need OLPC Devanagari Keyboards too.
> > >  >
> > >  > List:
> > >  >
> > >  > 1. Hindi
> > >  > 2. Marathi
> > >  > 3. Sanskrit
> > >  >
> > >  >
> > >  > Regards,
> > >  > Manu
> > >  >
> > >  As per Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari) and some
> > >  other sites:
> > >
> > >  Languages that use Devanagari are - Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit,
> > >  Pali (I'm not so sure about this one...) Bihari, Bhili, Marwari,
> > >  Konkani, Bhojpuri, Pahari (Garhwali and Kumaoni), Santhali, Newari,
> > >  Tharu, Sindhi, Panjabi, and Kashmiri.
> > >
> > >  Sameer
> > >
> > >  --
> > >  Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> > >  Associate Professor of Information Systems
> > >  San Francisco State University
> > >  San Francisco CA 94132 USA
> > >  http://verma.sfsu.edu/
> > >  http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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>
>
> --
>  Arjun Sarwal
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