Add kannada wiktionary as stardict dictionary

[vvasuki]

@damooo would you be interested in this? It would help us kannada speakers greatly.

[vvasuki]

Thanks! Please mark purANa encyclopedia issue as fixed once you're done pushing the changes.

I don't think that there is any significant deviation between (modern) kannaDa and telugu. Please see http://www.virtualvinodh.com/wp/character-matrix/ .

here is an example entry: https://kn.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%B2%AC%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%A1%E0%B3%81 Just visit https://kn.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B6%E0%B3%87%E0%B2%B7:Random as many times as you like to get a broader sample. As I have not used kn.wiktionary a lot, I can't yet find you the best model entries.

2016-04-11 9:45 GMT-07:00 श्रीराम notifications@github.com:

viswas ji, can you give some small info about any special differances. like special alphabets, and are there also any hrasva letters, those which are differant from devanagari (or telugu).. And if it is possible, list of some 10 search words in wiktionary, which contain all type of headings, like gramatical details, usage, translations, etc.. So that i can preserve all of them by referring those 10 words everytime i modified.. So that i can make sure i didn't mess up

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[damooo]

done .

update

More than two and half lakh pages of wiktionary-kn were mirrrored and edited, along with text formatting preserved.all languages headwords extracted, added, and all types of transliterations, and devanagari also added in head words.and so many things. as due to language barrior, completely driven by using html tags. so if any mistakes are there then please mention. Once it is sufficiently error free if any, then after i will work on items in my todo list. and some languages lik mandarin ( :D ), and urdu etc also there as main words with explanation in kannada. for them no trannslation added. so to check them you type your self for now.

And some search words ಮುೞುಂಕು ಅಮೃತ ಹಾಲು ನೆರೆ ಬಗೆ ಬಿಡು ಎಲ್ಲ ಭಾಷೆಗಳು ಒಲವು ಕೊರೆ .......etc. : )

[vvasuki]

This is wonderful work, and a gift to all Indian language lovers, thanks! (I moved your files to kn-head for now.)

A few requests:

• In kn-head/wiktionary_kn, retain only kannaDa headword entries.
• Include devanAgarI transliteration of kannada headwords.
• Create files in en-head/wiktionary_en_kn/wiktionary_en_kn.* which has English headwords.
• [Optional] Create files in nonenkn-head/wiktionary_nonenkn/wiktionary_nonenkn.* for all other headwords.

This splitting makes sense for the following reasons:

• It makes the file sizes easily manageable.
• It lets users pick the particular small dicts they want while ignoring others. (Especially important for people with old phones with limited memory.)

The addition of devanAgarI headwords of course makes sense for the same reason it makes sense in case of telugu (the most important reason, from my perspective, is that it help look up sanskrit-root words in other languages).

Also, interesting to know about your interest in other languages :-D. Urdu is a good idea, but I would argue that Indian (hindu) regional languages are a much higher priority (from the perspective of their commonalities with each other through sanskrit).

[vvasuki]

Very good, thanks shrIrAma! Can you also add optitrans for kannada?

[vvasuki]

I see optitrans and devanAgarI headwords as well! Thanks, @damooo !

Only, the right devanAgarI mAtrA-s are not being used for o and e. Example: Compare ಕೊಕ್ಕರೆ|kokkare|कोक्करे in wiktionary-kn with కొక్కరాయి|kokkaraayi|कॊक्करायि in wiktionary-te . Can you fix, @damooo ?

[damooo]

Will soon add entire new html version , with periodic updatable script. already created, but on testing.

[damooo]

This update may take a week.