The Phonemic Approach for Sanskrit Text

  • Authors:
  • R. K. Joshi;T. N. Dharmadhikari;Vijay Vasudev Bedekar

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, (C-DAC) Juhu, Mumbai, India;Vaidika, Sanshodhan, Mandal, Pune, India;Institute for Oriental Study, Thane, India

  • Venue:
  • Sanskrit Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Professor Joshi proposes that a phonemic encoding scheme be adopted as the standard for machine processing of Sanskrit text. In the scheme he details, each phoneme is represented by a single character code that represents a single Sanskrit sound. Graphic units in Devanagari corresponding to syllabic units, including consonant plus /a/, are represented as sequences. Glyphs corresponding to intial vowels verses dependent vowels are not given distinct encodings; rather they are selected based upon context. (P. Scharf)