Just a suggestion. Why not put up such projects on Meta/
Keeping them on the English wikipedia brings about a misconception that it
is restricted to English.
P.S: I've been told that the words 'Indic' and 'Vernacular' are derogatory.
Let's say Indian languages shall we?
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at
2012/11/13 Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in:
P.S: I've been told that the words 'Indic' and 'Vernacular' are derogatory.
Citation needed. I hope not to derail this thread, but AFAIK there's
nothing derogatory in these words. I don't even know why do you
mention vernacular, which
Amir,
I was merely told by someone. I was told that both words were derogatory
[at the same time, hence I mentioned both].
If you wish to discuss this further, we can take it offlist.
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
2012/11/13 Srikanth
2012/11/13 Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com:
Amir,
I was merely told by someone. I was told that both words were derogatory [at
the same time, hence I mentioned both].
If you wish to discuss this further, we can take it offlist.
If he didn't explain it, then you can presume that
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
If he didn't explain it, then you can presume that it's wrong. There's
nothing to discuss, and there's nothing wrong with saying Indic
languages.
The word Indic refers generally to the Indo-Aryan family of
On Wednesday 14 November 2012 09:31 AM, Anirudh Bhati wrote:
The word Indic refers generally to the Indo-Aryan family of
languages, which does not include Dravidian languages prevalent in
Southern India.
[citation needed]
Then Why don't they just called Indic language, other than Indo-Aryan
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2012/11/14 Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com:
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
If he didn't
The word Indic refers generally to the Indo-Aryan family of languages,
which does not include Dravidian languages prevalent in Southern India.
Hence, bunching the entire system of Dravidian languages together with the
Indo-Aryan languages in India may seem derogatory to some, and reasonably
I don't know which dictionary this is. Merriam-Webster says that it can be
both:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indic
Indic is very common in discussion of computing in the languages of India
and its neighboring countries, all of which face similar challenges.
There's nothing
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
If he didn't explain it, then you can presume that it's wrong. There's
nothing to discuss, and there's nothing wrong with saying
My email was not directed at anyone personally. It was simply a response
to the observation Srikanth made and from what I glanced from Wikipedia
articles.[1] In the context of linguistics, you will be hard-pressed to
find reliable sources that refer to Indic languages as a generic term for
all
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.comwrote:
factually incorrect .
Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmic_scripts
The article you refer to lacks proper citations.
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2012/11/14 Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com:
The word 'Indic' itself is a derivative of the word Hindus or Indus
referring to the Indus Valley Civilization, which did not stretch as far as
Deccan India where the Dravidian family of languages have been prevalent.
The distinction between the
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