Wow! I feel … represented, and I barely can read or write in Gurmukhi. Still, it tickles me pink to realize that my grandmother could now Google me, if only she could use a computer.
This is incredible [I’m such a gushing fan-boy] ! Here are some of the other South Asian orthographies that one can google in: Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil, Telegu, Urdu, Bengali (Bengla), Bihari, Malayalam, Sindhi. Interestingly, the source for this list also included Uighur as one of the languages associated with India. I thought the Uighur were Turkic peoples living in China, their big muslim minority. Are there any in South Asia?
UPDATE: As Saheli points out in the comments, these are only languages for which Google has an interface, as distinct from languages that Google indexes.
Sindhi sai, Thanks for your account. I was looking for some personal stories such as yours, to get an idea. The whole deal with Sindhi is fascinating to me.
i cant read the malayalam version
I was definitely excited to see that Google’s sharing some love with the people from the land of the three to five rivers.
The BBC site online does something similar, news.bbc.co.uk – having the news translated in a number of different South Asian languages and scripts, but apparently enough Punjabis don’t read the BBC for them to cater to us as yet. At least I can read english. Hooray!
Does anyone know how to write out the word “Love” or “Strength” or “Determination” in Gurmukhi?
Don’t get a tattoo. You are too young and you’ll regret getting a lame one.
Dont know about the gurmukhi version, but the hindi translation via the google service is as below
पà¥à¤°à¥‡à¤® संकलà¥à¤ª शकà¥à¤¤à¤¿ You should totally! get a tattoo.
Here’s a couple of examples to show you could do worse than get a tattoo of ‘love’ on your chest – how about chewbacca on your arm or ol’ dirty bastard on your leg.
This is good. I have spent last 4 years teaching myself Gurmukhi at home. I even had a bad novel published. I have now nearly conquered and hope to write in the future.
It would be great if other westerners of Indian-Pakistani descent did the same. We need to take out heritage languages back..
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