Vinodh Rajan

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Jack of many trades, master of few

[Vinodh Rajan @virtualvinodh]

@cobbaltt @yes_kay_ @srinaths @mojosaurus @sanjeeth @vinodhtweets AFAIK Virosozhiyam is pretty much the only Tamil text explicitly written by a Mahayana author. Not that we have many Tamil Buddhist texts to begin with.

At least, we're lucky that Tamil Jains and Tamil Digamabara monasteries survived to preserve the Tamil Jain texts.

[Vinodh Rajan @virtualvinodh]

@cobbaltt @yes_kay_ @srinaths @mojosaurus @sanjeeth @vinodhtweets ஆயும் குணத்து அவலோகிதன் பக்கல் அகத்தியன் கேட்டுஏயும் புவனிக்கு இயம்பிய தண்டமிழ் ஈங்கு உரைக்கநீயும் உளையோ எனில் கருடன் சென்ற நீள் விசும்பில்ஈயும் பறக்கும் இதற்கு என்கொலோ சொல்லுவது ஏந்திழையே

https://t.co/n5I4Nsejnm

[Vinodh Rajan @virtualvinodh]

@generalusername If you look at it closely, you can see it's pretty much "southern"-ified Nagari without the head stroke. Look at na, ta, da etc.

[Vinodh Rajan @virtualvinodh]

@cobbaltt @generalusername Here is something I wrote a long, long time ago.

https://t.co/yGcGVbutx0

Both Jains and (Theravada) Buddhists considered their version of Magadhi as the source of all languages.

[Vinodh Rajan @virtualvinodh]

@generalusername @cobbaltt Tamil texts also have சங்கதம் (caṅkatam)

[Vinodh Rajan @virtualvinodh]

@generalusername @cobbaltt Sanskrit, I presume.

[Vinodh Rajan @virtualvinodh]

@cobbaltt @generalusername pacchā ca tato andhaka yonaka damiḽādi desabhāsā c’eva sakkaṭadi aṭṭhārasa mahābhāsā ca nibattā

And afterwards, the regional languages such as Andhaka, Yonaka, Damila, etc., as well as the eighteen great languages, Sanskrit, etc., arose out of it.

[Vinodh Rajan @virtualvinodh]

@ParamSiddharth Cool. Will do that.

[Vinodh Rajan @virtualvinodh]

@ParamSiddharth Can I just ping you when I push a new version and you can trigger a new build? Would that work?

[Param Siddharth Manu (𑂣𑂩𑂧) @ParamSiddharth]

Building Aksharamukha.js as we speak.

It is indeed fun and engaging to build in #OpenSource, but as a #Bajjika-speaker, the bigger part of me wants to build to help our local languages and scripts be more technically accessible to fellow countrypeople.

Fingers-crossed on the purpose being fulfilled. :) One day we will have a fully-functional and also good-looking keyboard app for #native scripts on both Android and iOS. Perhaps, one day the platforms' native keyboards would also start supporting more native scripts, hahaha! ;)

Jai Bihar! Jai Hind!

[Vinodh Rajan @virtualvinodh]

@ParamSiddharth Again, thanks a lot for doing this! I really appreciate it!

[Vinodh Rajan @virtualvinodh]

@ParamSiddharth Sweet. It I push a new version in Python, will the wasm code update automatically or should it be built manually for each new release?

[Vinodh Rajan @virtualvinodh]

@ParamSiddharth May I ask how did you port it to JS?

[Vinodh Rajan @virtualvinodh]

@ParamSiddharth Man.. Thank you very much! That's amazing! Was meaning to do this for a long time!

[Vinodh Rajan @virtualvinodh]

@longhandnotes @Ugrashravas It's a common Tibetan convention. Replacing intervocalic /va/ with /ba/ (like Bengali and Oriya) . I assume it's most likely because they got their Sanskrit filtered through Eastern India. The individual /va/ is rarely used in actual Sanskrit texts.

[Vinodh Rajan @virtualvinodh]

@akilan27 I was fighting against it 17 years ago and realized it was a futile exercise.

https://t.co/aZGczf3Hq0

I suppose that's the downside of having diglossia: you can keep inventing words or purifying the written language, with them never entering the spoken language

[Vinodh Rajan @virtualvinodh]

@generalusername @cobbaltt In my TN Telugu dialect, I'd probably say "నాతో చేరి". Most likely a calque from the colloquial Tamil "என்னோட சேந்து"

[Vinodh Rajan @virtualvinodh]

@sasicodes @lhoestq Did you ever test it with real inscriptions?

[Vinodh Rajan @virtualvinodh]

Chakreshvari is a font that helps Tamil speakers accurately transcribe foreign languages using a Tamil-like script. Unlike native Tamil transcription that merges sounds like crate & great as க்ரேட், it preserves distinctions for precise pronunciation

https://t.co/QqC2GbFnq6