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प्रणाम
When Ataturk Turkified his native Turkish language by replacing the Arabic and Persian borrowings with native Turkish terms, he was acclaimed as a hero and the father of the Turks. When Dravidian nationalists attempt to purge loanwords in Tamil that originate from the Aryan and "foreign" Sanskrit and replace them with native Dravidian words, it is also lauded.

Yet, when the Hindi language tries to rid itself of Arabic and Persian foreign vocabulary, it is termed as "unnatural", it is ridiculed and called names. Why? How is it unnatural for a language to have words that originate natively in place of words that have been borrowed from some foreign, non related language of the invaders? Thanks. -- 157.33.186.106 08:16, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Hindi should focus its efforts on ridding itself of English vocabulary. Arabic and Persian have earned their place, removing them is counterproductive. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 00:59, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
 * The only component of the vocabulary of any tongue that I utterly loathe are the learned borrowings (as in Indo-Aryan, Romance etc.), and I loathe those inasmuch as those are unnatural loans, having been ripped off from manuscripts and not come through the process of historical contact. On the other hand, I have a lot of admiration for inherited as well as substrate words. And as for the naturally borrowed terms, I do not mind them as long as the inherited words are not supplanted. So, this user is indeed a misled one.

Template:hi-IPA
Hi, I am adding to some words I heard pronounced. How accurate is the template when it produces the right number and position of syllables but there is no stress? I mean is /t͡ʃəp.pəl/ close for with two shwas? Is it purely phonemic? --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 10:19, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Stress has not been implemented yet. I will get around to it this year (quite busy recently with university applications). Otherwise it is accurate. /ˈt͡ʃəp.pəl/ is the actual pronunciation with stress. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 00:47, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I was under impression that stressed "a" is not pronounced as /ə/. OK, great. Basically, it seems the module works fine then, it's just the stress is missing. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 06:43, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
 * There might be a difference phonetically but Hindi speakers do not distinguish the two phonemically. I'll have to look into that if we ever get around to adding phonetic transcriptions. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 16:16, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

Sudh hindi words
Pranam Prabhuji, i was reading something like a index of words that you contributed "Hindi terms derived from Sanskrit", and i found really great. I am very found of ancient Sanskrit scriptures, and now days i live in India and i am learning hindi language, mainly my interest is in pure hindi words. Where can i find a big amount of Hindi words derived from Sanskrit with possibly English transliteration? GouraKrsna (talk) 05:30, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Please no need to call me prabhuji, I definitely don't deserve that much respect :). Shuddh Hindi words would be found in Category:Hindi terms borrowed from Sanskrit. Transliterations are available on each entry individually, but thus far not on the list. If you would like I can write a script that grabs all the relevant info. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 04:10, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Ok :). Yes, but i don't know so much about scripts... But may be easy to handle. I just need to be able to see the English transliteration and copy, then i will make a relevant vocabulary list. GouraKrsna (talk) 05:49, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

To open each entry individually would not be possible. Because its huge like a dictionary, and my time now days it is really short. Would be great to have something easily accessible. GouraKrsna (talk) 05:54, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

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Phonetic transcription on the Module:hi-IPA
From what I know, êhê and ôhô are allophonic changes in the standard dialect and most varieties. They are in no way phonemic. Therefore, your reasoning that the transcription isn't phonetic is incorrect. RonnieSingh (talk) 02:10, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Are you sure they're allophonic? I have never heard anyone actually say kah(a)nā for kêh(ê)nā, for instance. And I think Hindi speakers are internally aware that êhê != aha. For example, the formal pronunciation of वह and the word वहन might be minimal pairs in that regard. And anyways, the rest of the module is not phonetic at all, it doesn't show e.g. assimilation of च्च to [tːʃ]. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 15:38, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

I'm not sure you understand the concept of allophony. The phonemic sequence schwa-h-schwa or just schwa-h directly turns into êh(ê). This is it's phonetic realisation. [ɛ], [ɐ] and [ə] are allophones (different realisations) of the same phonological unit /ə/. And there are Bihari speakers who pronounce śahar as [ʃə.ɦəɾ]. It's a regional realisation where the allophony does not exist. /ɛ/ as a separate phoneme from /ə/ only exists in English words, that too in posh accents. Vah is pronoun as vêh and vahan as vêhên in Standard Hindi. And if the rest of the module isn't phonetic, there's no point including these allophones in it and showing them as phonemic. RonnieSingh (talk) 16:52, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Okay, since we are not consistently using a phonetic transcription, then it does not make sense to include either of the êhê/ôhô. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 21:52, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Also the êh and ôh RonnieSingh (talk) 18:41, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Breaking link from अयं to 𑀅𑀅𑀁
So that Pali words can be looked up in script by common citations forms as well as their stems, I have just broken this link. It doesn't seem right to use 𑀅𑀅𑀁 for morphological information about Devanagari script forms. --RichardW57 (talk) 16:33, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Module:number list/data/hi
Could you check the recent edits to this module? I noticed several module errors in Hindi number entries. At first I thought it was due to the English IP who does mass edits of pronunciation sections, but then I noticed it was the number list templates. I finally traced it back to a series of 30 edits that User:Gotitbro made to this module.

Not knowing any Hindi (aside from Devanagari I picked up three decades ago from Sanskrit at UCLA), I have no clue if they make sense, but I spotted at least one case where the new spelling is a redirect because you moved the page to its current spelling back in 2016.

At any rate, I don't know what the solution is, but I figured you might. Thanks! Chuck Entz (talk) 05:23, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Most of my edits were spelling variants to the more common ones, the edits are numerous as I had to check each entry against those in published dicts. I also took help from fr:Annexe:Nombres en hindi (which was more accurate) for adding unlisted ordinal numbers. I can't see any errors in the module, please point me to what you are seeing. Gotitbro (talk) 05:32, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
 * The problem isn't so much with the accuracy of the content, but with the fact that it doesn't match what's in the entries. The idea of such a module is to allow entries to easily link to the previous and next entries in the sequence. If an entry isn't in the data, the module has no way to know where to link to in the entry itself, and it won't link to it from other entries.
 * As for the module errors: those are in the entries, not in the module itself. Whenever you edit a module, you need to monitor Category:Pages with module errors (CAT:E for short) for several days to spot problems. There are currently 3 Hindi entries there.
 * As it is, either the entries are going to need to be changed to reflect the module or the module is going to need to be changed to reflect the entries. The decision as to which of those two things to do is a judgment call that requires knowledge of both the language and the module, and should be worked out within the community of Hindi editors. That's why I decided to bring Aryaman in on this. Chuck Entz (talk) 13:49, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, the moves to chandrabindu by Gotitbro were perfectly correct and I've gone ahead and moved the pages in CAT:E. Gotitbro generally has been a helpful editor and I'm happy to see someone fixing up the neglected portions of Hindi :) I'm becoming gradually more active so hopefully we can continue that. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 21:17, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I was never worried about his knowledge of Hindi or his good intentions- I've been patrolling his edits since the beginning and I generally don't bother checking them anymore. My concern was about his understanding of the technical aspects and of community consensus. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:02, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Of course, that was certainly the right thing to do; thank you for bringing it to my attention. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 03:06, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Misplaced Aspects/Moods in Hindi Conjugation Table
First, let me put this link here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VhG_4KK4FejIYmYsspxnKjic4-gtOeKv__nN8AyvyCU/edit?usp=sharing Refer to the spreadsheet in this link to understand what corrections I am talking about below.I have written down the whole corrected conjugation table in the spreadsheet.

I noticed that there are many verb aspects that are misplaced in the conjugation table of Hindi. Hindi has 3 aspects (progressive, habitual and perfective) and 5 moods (indicative, presumptive, subjunctive, contrafactual, and imperative). But, not all moods are shown in the table and the ones which are shown, among them some are placed wrongly in the table. For example,


 * In the imperfective aspect (which I recommend that it be renamed to «habitual» because «imperfective» is a general term under which habitual is a subterm, and this -ta ending doesn't convey the meaning of the imperfective in general), there are two «present» forms shown, in the first present form what is shown is the contrafactual mood of the non-aspectual forms and it is not the aspectual form. The correction would be renaming «present» to «contrafactual». So, for example, मरता should be written in the non-aspectual forms and in the imperfective forms it should be corrected to मरता होता instead.


 * In the «continuous» aspect section, the name «continuous» should be corrected to «progressive» because «continuous» & «progressive» aspects are two different aspects and they convey different ideas, but however, in English, they are the same, and maybe that's the cause of this confusion. रहा in hindi conveys the progressive aspect and not the continuous Also, there is no contrafactual mood written in this section. It should be added. Example of progressive aspect: «पहन रहा है» and example of continuous aspect «पहना हुआ है». Note that both translate to «he is wearing.» in English, and it is the source of confusion I was talking about.


 * Future subjunctive forms are missing for all the aspects in the table. I have written down all in a google sheets page which I am sharing here. You can refer to that and change the conjugation table on wiktionary.


 * Impersonal forms are also wrongly labelled. For example, there are not 4 infinitives in Hindi, it's the infinitive participle which has 4 forms. There are just 2 forms of the infinitive in Hindi, direct and the oblique form (gerund). I'll show by examples:

1. मैं बोलना चाहता हूँ। (direct form of infinitive)

2. मैं खेलने जा रहा हूँ। (oblique form of Infinitive)

You can make any such sentence where the pronoun is in the nominative/direct case and infinitive will always be either ending in ना and ने and never नी & नीं because these here are true infinitives and not participles. Whenever the dative pronoun is used the infinitive acts like a participle and hence giving a wrong idea that there are 4 infinitives in Hindi.

1. मुझे ये चीज़ करनी है।

2. मुझे नाचना है।

3. उसे उसकी चीज़ें देनी नहीं हैं।

4. आपको काफ़ी काम करने हैं।

It is the dative case that allows the use of infinitive as a participle.

Itsmeyash31 (talk) 20:41, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much for the table and the explanations. I think it is time to, first of all, use a Lua module as the backend for the table instead of fixing the current hacky system of templates (which I have revamped completely several times). I'll be starting that at Module:hi-conj and will try to have a working full table in a week. I'm a bit busy with other things, but this will be done. Please keep updating me with any other issues you spot, I'll ping you once I have an idea of how the code should look like as a start. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 20:52, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

Origin of ਦੱਸਣਾ
Hi, do you know the origin of the Punjabi word ਦੱਸਣਾ?
 * @User:2409:4042:81e:5f5c::1c2b:40a0 Yes! It's ultimately from Sanskrit . I've added some more information to the entry 🇨🇬. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 15:45, 1 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello, its me again. I forgot to follow up on this and thanks a lot for giving the additional information on that word. I have one more request, I am visiting wiktionary now to list down some words because now I am writing the dialogues for a Hindi play where I want to avoid hi fi Shuddh Hindi words and also no Urdu words. I'm prefering poetic words like साँझ for evening, रैन for night, बरखा for rain etc. Just like ਦੱਸਣਾ which is originally दर्शयति but has changed in pronounciation. Typing every word in wiktionary and looking for its origin will be very difficult so for Hindi is there a specific page here that has a list of all Hindi words originating in Sanskrit but which underwent change in spelling and sound? User:2409:4042:81e:5f5c::1c2b:40a0
 * @User:2409:4042:81e:5f5c::1c2b:40a0 There is CAT:Hindi terms inherited from Sanskrit. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 13:41, 22 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Very good, this is what I wanted. Thanks for the page. User:2409:4042:81e:5f5c::1c2b:40a0

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Pravachan in Prakrit!
Check this out. This dude is actually speaking Prakrit! XD (Can't post a direct link to youtube because it triggers a spam filter for some reason).

In the beginning he says something to the effect of "Sanskrit is very difficult/rigid". I think he's speaking Maharashtri because of the fact that it's a Jain pravachan but then in the video he also uses the word "hodi" - presumably to mean "becomes". This sounds like Shauraseni rather than Maharashtri. Anyway just thought you'd find it interesting. -- Bhagadatta (talk) 03:06, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

Also -- Bhagadatta (talk) 03:07, 18 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the ping. I've seen this video. It's very interesting since it's perhaps the only video of someone speaking in Prakrit. This organisation has several Prakrit resources. Like most Prakrit resources, it appears to acknowledge that there are more than one Prakrit lects, but may not always specify which lect is used. Also, they seem to reconstruct (ʻcoinʼ) a lot words based on the known sound laws without specifying which words are attested and which are reconstructed. Kutchkutch (talk) 06:18, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it appears to be the only video of Prakrit being spoken. I've been trying to discern some words from what he speaks to create lemmas on this project. Too bad he switches to Hindi midway. By the way, did you notice he says (in Prakrit) in the beginning that "Prakrit is soft and smooth like a woman and Sanskrit is rigid and hard like a man"? One doesn't need to know Prakrit to understand that part. Ha ha. Wonder how well that comment went down. -- Bhagadatta (talk) 06:28, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
 * This is so cool! I noticed that he's saying not . I think Jain Maharasthri is slightly different from regular Maharashtri, at least Pischel lists it separately. And lmao, that comparison is 😅
 * BTW, I saw this cool site a bit ago: http://prakrit.info/prakrit/ —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 21:14, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that's a really amazing website! -- Bhagadatta (talk) 01:15, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Hindi modularisation
Hi,

How are you? You haven't been very responsive lately - regarding Hindi inflections, transliterations. I hope it's not me, LOL. Let me know what if you don't like something. Thank you for all the hard work. I think we are getting somewhere thanks to you and Benwing2, even if it may not feel that way. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 12:24, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah sorry! No nothing like that! I have just been lacking the energy to handle some of the queries the past few days (tons of work with my semester starting), so I have been doing more menial tasks here now and then. Sorry if you got a negative message from that, that is not the case. I believe I have caught up with all of the recent questions. I definitely think this is a great initiative, super thankful to for his module work and you for starting it all. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 14:05, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Regarding page "क्षमा" + my block
Hi. Please tell me what was wrong in the edit I made to the page "क्षमा" and why you blocked me. - (शब्दशोधक (talk) 05:57, 29 August 2020 (UTC))
 * Please see your talk page. You have been removing perfectly good information, including whole well-researched Sanskrit entries and Urdu forms of Hindi words. Also, you have been totally unresponsive. There are too few South Asian language editors for us to cleanup every single entry and revert every incorrect edit, so a block is an expedient way of resolving these issues. I would really suggest looking at WT:ELE and understanding proper formatting. Don't get me wrong, it is great to have new editors, but as we are all volunteers we want to minimize unnecessary work and limit sub-par contributions. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 15:30, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
 * In your entry for, you gave the meaning "pardon/forgiveness". This meaning does not exist for that word in Sanskrit as क्षमा rather means tolerance and patience. The meaning "pardon" seems to be innovated by Hindi.
 * Earlier, you did the same at . That was even worse because this word does not exist in Sanskrit but you removed the Hindi entry and replaced it with a Sanskrit entry for a word that does not exist in Sanskrit. These are two of the multiple reasons for your block. -- Bhagadatta (talk) 16:44, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi. I understand what you say and that I will not remove Urdu forms of Hindi words and neither will I edit anything before checking properly about that. शब्दशोधक (talk) 16:45, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

सञ्ज्ञा
I am just asking one more thing about the word सञ्ज्ञा. I have checked it out about this word well that it does exist and संज्ञा is an alternative form of it. As we know that in Sanskrit, ज्ञ = ज् + ञ, while is pronounced as ग् + य in Hindi. We know that ञ is used in case there is the अनुस्वार(anusvāra) before either च छ ज or झ. In Hindi, संज्ञा is all right but in Sanskrit, considering that ज्ञ is nothing but ज्(j) and ञ(ña), and that ञ् (ña) can be used to replace ं(ṃ) before ca cha ja and jha. So just saying that संज्ञा(saṃjñā) can indeed be written as सञ्ज्ञा(sañjñā). Please reply and tell me if I should recreate the deleted page. Thanks and regards. शब्दशोधक (talk) 16:45, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I look forward to your edits :) is not a valid spelling because the prefix  is always expressed with the anusvara ं not with the different nasal consonants when sandhi occurs. But, I do see  gets some results online; I don't think in Classical/Vedic Sanskrit it would ever be spelled like this, but modern Sanskrit may be different. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 16:53, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

वातावरण
@Bhagadatta Hi. I do think that the word वातावरण does exist in Sanskrit as वात and आवरण are both Sanskrit words and when you join them, you get वातावरण. In fact I have confirmed it from many sources. There is the Google’s dictionary, hindi2dictionary, shabdkosh.raftaar, etc. I hope you check these out once on these and conform that it is a word in Sanskrit. Reply back to me after that. Thanks and regards. शब्दशोधक (talk) 16:56, 29 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi there! The dictionaries you mentioned are Hindi dictionaries right? They give Hindi entries for these words. For Sanskrit the best resource to use would be this: http://sanskritdictionary.com/
 * It has combined the contents of many Sanskrit dictionaries. So if you type a word which for some reason is not present in Monier Williams' Sanskrit dictionary but is in Vaman Shivram Apte's dictionary then you'll still get a result. Entering वातावरण on that website gives no results. The reason is, both वात and आवरण exist in Sanskrit as you mentioned but they were not combined to form a compound - that happened only in Hindi.
 * There is also a way to check if and where a particular word exists within attested Sanskrit literature: http://www.sanskrit-linguistics.org/dcs/index.php?contents=abfrage
 * Here you can enter the IAST transliteration of a word and see where it has occurred in literature, like the Vedas, Upanishads, Mahabharata, the Vyākaraṇa texts etc. Even this site gives no results for vātāvaraṇa.
 * Regards -- Bhagadatta (talk) 01:10, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi there! I just want you to check out at वातावरण which states its meaning as weather in Sanskrit. Regards. शब्दशोधक (talk) 03:38, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Following WT:CFI as this word doesn't occur commonly in known Sanskrit works and texts (including modern ones) then we won't have it on Wiktionary. The thing with the Spokensanskrit website is that they just make up words. Like you can see there's the word for "disk drive" which has never been used in any actual Sanskrit texts. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 03:55, 30 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the the reply. Earlier, I also used to use spokensanskrit.de until I saw it contained words not attested in any Sanskrit work or dictionary. In this talk page message you can see spokensanskrit.de was known to be inaccurate even back in 2015. Now, if the word वातावरण exists in school textbooks of Sanskrit or is used in any modern day Sanskrit publication, we can add the word and give it the tag of New Sanskrit or "neologism" or something like that. Please let me know if you saw this word in a textbook of Sanskrit or an article written in Sanskrit.
 * By the way, I have restored the Sanskrit entry at क्षमा. -- Bhagadatta (talk) 04:14, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Please check out वातावरण शब्दशोधक (talk) 04:30, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
 * It seems as if it's a part of New Sanskrit vocabulary. That website again is evidently not reliable as searching something like ऋक्ष gives no results, while in reality the word does exist in Sanskrit. The most convenient source to consult would be Monier Williams' dictionary the link to which I have posted above. -- Bhagadatta (talk) 04:53, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Regarding तारा
Hi there! I am writing regarding the page तारा. The Hindi word for star तारा is derived from Sanskrit word तारक. I don’t think that there is a word called tārā in Sanskrit. What do you think about this? Should the entry be deleted? I feel so. Thanks and regards. (शब्दशोधक (talk) 09:37, 30 August 2020 (UTC))
 * The word exists in Sanskrit. It occurs in the Mahabharata according to Monier-Williams. So it shouldn't be deleted. But you are right about the Hindi entry, I have fixed it and cleaned it up. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 15:54, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi there! Thanks a lot for correcting the word. शब्दशोधक (talk) 04:56, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Regarding page, and
Hi Aryaman. There is a page called ज्ञानिन although I think no word as ज्ञानिन exists without the हलन्त in Sanskrit. As the word ends in the नकार, there is no vowel attached to it. So just saying that I doubt if there is a word ज्ञानिन. I think the right word is ज्ञानिन्. Regards (शब्दशोधक (talk) 03:21, 7 September 2020 (UTC))

Thanks a lot for deleting the wrong page शब्दशोधक (talk) 07:15, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for deleting the wrong page. I am asking about the words बिशेष and बिशेषण. I am also unaware of बिशेष being an alternative form of विशेष and बिशेषण being an alternative form of विशेषण. Please verify and tell me if the word exists along with source or delete these 2 words. Thanks and regards, (शब्दशोधक (talk) 08:21, 7 September 2020 (UTC))
 * Agreed, I'll delete those too. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 15:20, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for helping remove unnecessary words from Wiktionary शब्दशोधक (talk) 15:46, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Inflection of Sanskrit Nouns
Hi there! Since a few days, I am working on creating inflections of Sanskrit nouns mostly. I just want to ask you something regarding this. Many times inflections of Sanskrit nouns function as Adverbs, particularly in their instrumental singular form. Like अखिलेन, कृपया, अर्थात्, etc. So I am a bit confused how to label them - as Adverb, Noun, Noun form, Noun inflection, or something else. Sorry for bothering again but as I am a new editor so I am not aware of many things and formatting here. Hoping for your advice. Thanks & regards, शब्दशोधक (talk) 11:56, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

And apologies once again for adding so much clutter to your talk page since I have joined. शब्दशोधक (talk) 12:15, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

I have also deleted a bit of useless content like fixing the suffix, which I added some time before when I didn’t know about the template sa and adding it to categories. But please don’t block me for that and please don’t consider these messages clutter because I really need your advice on this. Thanks & Regards, शब्दशोधक (talk) 12:23, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

It would be great if you can also advise me on this. Thanks, शब्दशोधक(सम्पर्क करें•योगदान) 08:26, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
 * They are adverbs and not just mere inflections. MW's dictionary has separate entries for them (usually there are no separate entries for inflected forms, only lemma forms are used there). So they can be kept as adverbs, with the etymology being given as: "instrumental singular of ". -- Bhagadatta (talk) 10:14, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. And one more question- for the rest of the forms, they can be kept just as sa? Regards, शब्दशोधक (talk) 10:52, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Use sa and in the definition, use sa. Take a look at, , and follow the format exactly. Change the abbreviation as per the requirement (like   for nominative singular,   for instrumental singular,   for ablative singular etc). -- Bhagadatta (talk) 12:36, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Noted with thanks. शब्दशोधक (talk) 16:07, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

दीपावलि की शुभकामनाएँ

 * बहुत धन्यवाद और आप दोनों को भी दीपावली की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएँ! -- Bhagadatta(talk) 14:24, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

क्या आपको कोई e-mail (विद्युत्पत्त्र - संस्कृत विकिपीडिया के अनुसार) आया मेरा जिसमे मैंने संस्कृत में एक पङ्क्ति लिखी है? धन्यवाद!  श श  कः  15:11, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Yeah I saw it now. I hardly ever use/open the email ID which I have at wiktionary so I missed it. -- Bhagadatta(talk) 02:35, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

Good to know! Are there any mistakes in that sentence?  श श  कः  03:12, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

no grammatical mistakes as far as i can tell, only sandhi was incomplete in a few places (for instance should have been  etc) -- Bhagadatta(talk)  03:36, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
 * A belated Diwali to you! No holiday for me here in America 😆 hence been a bit busy. शब्दशोदक, अहं तव विद्युत्पत्त्राय तुष्यामि! तव संस्कृतं मम संस्कृतात् वस्य। —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 19:21, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

अहं प्रसन्नोऽस्मि! उत्तराय धन्यवादः। Even I am very busy now, but.... seems like I have become addicted to editing here. Trying hard to overcome.... संयम रखने का यत्न कर रहा हूँ।  श श  कः  05:05, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Request for template creation
Hello! Could you please create a template for the following reference that I intend to use for some Bengali etymological, phonological & orthographical informations, certain internal reconstructions of unattested Bengali, and (hopefully afterward) Middle & Old Bengali entries: The treatise is found in two volumes. So we can have something like this: (after the initialism of the book's name). Here are the links to the two volumes (PDFs): Volume I & Volume II. You may modify or add more details at will. Thanks. —inqilābī [ inqilāb zindabād ]  17:01, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Oh I love this book! Can't believe we don't have a template for it already; adding it now. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 22:01, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
 * See (following reference template guidelines). —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 22:06, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Transliteration Module (Deva -> Sind)
Hi AryamanA. I hope you're well.

I converted a transliteration module for Deva/Sind. It seems to be working as expected except for letter which is ड़ (𑋊). In Deva, it is a combination of the nuqta at the bottom and ड. Whereas in Khudawadi, it is simply a standalone character. Do you have any ideas on how I can solve this? Taimoorahmed11 (talk) 08:52, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
 * On a related note: there are 5 entries in CAT:E due to the script variety sd-Deva not being in the system. You should always check CAT:E for a few days after working with modules that are in use. It looks like an admin will have to add the script to Module:scripts/data and add it to the list for sd at Module:languages/data2. I don't know enough about either the script or Module:scripts/data to feel comfortable doing it myself. Chuck Entz (talk) 15:31, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I've fixed it by adding the nuqta to the character-matching regex. (Basically, it will look for character + optional nuqta to convert; if you want to know how it works you'll have to learn about regular expressions.) Also, Khudawadi is a beautiful script.
 * There's no need for an sd-Deva (thus far) so I've just made it Deva. No more module errors. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 17:51, 6 September 2020 (UTC)


 * , Thank you very much for the help. I tried looking at other modules but still couldn't understand how to make it work. I'll definitely look into the 'Regular Expressions'. I really appreciate your help.


 * I apologise if i caused any errors, I definitely was wondering how to add the new script into the system but I wasn't aware on how to do it and definitely didn't think it could cause any problems. Again, apologies. Taimoorahmed11 (talk) 17:56, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Module Errors
There are currently 22 Devanagari entries in CAT:E as a result of your edits to the ancestor information in the data modules. Nothing wrong with the edits, but the etymologies that use inh with the wrong codes need to be cleaned up. There are probably some that haven't shown up yet because the edits haven't propagated to all of the transclusions yet. You should be able to find those in the relevant "language X terms inherited from language Y" categories before then. Thanks! Chuck Entz (talk) 14:50, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for bringing this to my attention! I had not correctly categorized some of the subfamilies, so the pages themselves (except for 1 Ahirani lemma) are okay. This reorganization will take a bit, so if you see any more errors that slip me please yell at me! —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 16:25, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

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*pr̥tHwíH, not *pr̥tʰiwíH
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 * 1) The Indo-Iranian protoform of,  and  is obviously  (< )—why would there be an extra *-i-? This form is typical of feminine u-stems; cf.  <  (feminine of ) < earlier  (of ).
 * 2)  is not a valid link. It will always be a redlink.

pa-Arab transliterator
Hi AryamanA,

I hope you're well especially during these times.

I saw the ks-Arab translit and I was dumbfounded at how great it seems to be working and was wondering if you could try and sort of out the pa-Arab translit, which could then also be used for Urdu transliterations. I tried my best a while ago but I'm not the greatest at managing modules.

Currently, the problems with the translit are:

1. Short vowels and diacritics: Zer, Zabar, Pesh, sakun (no schwa) and tashdeed (geminite/doubles consonant) 2. Long vowels that can be either a vowel or consonant (if consonant then a diacritic must be on top of the consonant) 3. Aspirated consonants, - if it's possible to not put diacritics on the ھ in order to represent a schwa 4. Vowels with a hamza - ئ، ۓ، أ 4b. Mapping of ۓ & ئے, ئ & ئی -Taimoor Ahmed(گل بات؟) 16:54, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Borrowed vs. derived
Do you even understand what "borrowed" means? The fact that inflectional affixes are added to some loanwords in Polish doesn't change the fact that they're still borrowed, as inflectional patterns for adjectives in German and Polish are different. It'd be impossible for the Polish word to be borrowed without any changes to it, because "real" wouldn't be a proper Polish adjective. But "derived" means that there's an intermediary stage which is not the case in Polish, and morphemes DO NOT make words "derived" if their base was DIRECTLY borrowed from one language, and affixes were added SIMULTANEOUSLY. Shumkichi (talk) 17:34, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
 * THANKS for your KIND RESPONSE. That makes sense though, so I won't touch it now. I do recommend being nicer because the internet is bad enough as is without us SCREAMING on lexicographic websites. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 17:42, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

Urdu Headword Module
Hi Aryaman :D, I hope you're well, especially during these uncertain times.

I was wondering if you could create the Headword module for Urdu as I've almost perfected the Urdu transliteration tool and I want to be able to implement the translit module.


 * -Taimoor Ahmed(گل بات؟) 22:22, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Indo-Aryan extension categories
Not sure if you noticed but I replaced with a proper category handler in Module:category tree/poscatboiler/data/terms by etymology (a handler near the bottom, plus a label "terms with Indo-Aryan extensions" and raw umbrella metacategory "Indo-Aryan extensions" elsewhere). (BTW this module is getting rather large; I need to break it up but haven't quite figured out how to do that.) I am going to delete and the code in Module:inc-extension that implements it. Benwing2 (talk) 23:05, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I appreciate it, that is certainly a better way to go! —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 23:16, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

Mass Changes by User:Kushalpok01
Dear User:AryamanA, I hope you are doing well. On English Wikipedia today, User:Austronesier raised the issues of recent mass changes by User:Kushalpok01, who replaced the character झ़ू with श़ू in multiple places, despite the former being the predominant usage. At English Wikipedia, various users have undone this damage. This user has done the same on several articles here, as well as on Hindi Wikipedia too (see Exhibit A and Exhibit B), and probably in other places that I have not noticed yet. I would be grateful if you could please address this as this is disruptive to the entire project. Kind regards, Anupam (talk) 15:36, 14 January 2021 (UTC)


 * I'd also prefer for that sound and I agree these edits (replacing झ़ with श़) are not-so constructive. Let's wait for some response from Aryaman and . Regarding disruptive edits on Hindi Wikipedia and other wikis - Aryaman doesn't have admin right on Hindi Wikipedia and other wikis, so I'd advice you to ask about this to local sysops there. 🔥 𑀰𑀩𑁆𑀤𑀰𑁄𑀥𑀓 🔥 15:47, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
 * User:शब्दशोधक, thank you. It's quite clear that the standard usage is . We can't change the predominant usage on Wikipedia just because User:Kushalpok01 personally feels that श sounds more similar to झ़. Anupam (talk) 16:31, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up. Kushalpok01 has not done any replacements of झ़ with श़ on this project, which is the only place I have sysop rights--not sure how else I can help. I agree that झ़ is the preferred standard orthography, and I have not encountered the other श़ ever. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 16:39, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

अश़दहा, शूश 🔥 𑀰𑀩𑁆𑀤𑀰𑁄𑀥𑀓 🔥 16:42, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I appreciate your reply User:AryamanA. Please have a look at their contributions, e.g. the creation of श़ूश़. I will try to undo some of the other undiscussed changes where I have the ability to do so. If both you and User:शब्दशोधक are active at Hindi Wikipedia, please have a look at their contributions where they have implemented the problematic change en masse; I have raised the issue on the administrator's noticeboard there and your participation would be appreciated. I am not that active at Hindi Wikipedia so I will leave it to you both. Thanks, Anupam (talk) 17:08, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Accelerated Hindi entry creation
Hi,

I've enabled User:Wyang/autoLoad.js on my User:Atitarev/common.js. Now Hindi is also enabled for me to make use of. I have disabled languages by scripts, which are not accelerated in User:Wyang/autoLoad.js because it conflicts with green links.

I can simply open a red link to make a call to the template. This is how I have just made an entry for with a few clicks.

It may want more enhancements, more parameters, such as optional Urdu or McGregor dictionary reference and modularisation but it's good as it is too, thank you! --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 00:40, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Oops, ref already exists. --01:08, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

CAT:Bihari language
Any idea what this language actually is? There is, but I have never heard of a single “Bihari language”… - ⸘ -  dictātor · mundī  22:47, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
 * R:inc:IAL has called the Bihari language "spurious". As for "Bihari languages" as a whole group, it is very hesitant to consider such a classification at first; but over due course it seems to gradually and reluctantly accept this idea, mentioning the group "Bihari languages" multiple times. I think that is what the Wikipedia article Bihari languages is based on. -- 𝓑𝓱𝓪𝓰𝓪𝓭𝓪𝓽𝓽𝓪(𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴) 01:07, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
 * The group Bihari languages is not any genetic group obviously, it's just a geographical one, and that’s been noted since the time of Chatterji. But how did the idea of a “Bihari language” stem anyway? Was it meant to be some ancestor of the Bihari languages, or something? I have seen AryamanA himself adding ‘Bihari’ words as descendants in the family tree. There are also ‘Bihari’ lemmas, besides CAT:User bh. I think we should simply get this language deleted. - ⸘ - dictātor · mundī  08:43, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
 * The “Bihari language” being intended as some ancestor of the Bihari languages is an interesting guess. Perhaps the idea of a “Bihari language” is based on A Comparative Dictionary of the Bihārī language. While the code wiki is used by Wiktionary for Category:Bihari language, Wikipedia uses the code wiki for Bhojpuri.


 * The most detailed discussion about the “Bihari language” appears to be at Talk:हांव:


 * mādhavpaṇḍit: Haha! But what is the Bihari language? Is there a single language? Aren't the languages spoken in Bihar a cluster of dialects for which an umbrella term Hindi can be used? (Hindi languages). Even Wikipedia says there's a group called the Bihari languages but does not allude to one language. Yet wiktionary has it as a single, separate language with two lemmas which are very common words across the subcontinent, so it doesn't help to understand what classifies as a "Bihari" word


 * Aryaman: Bihari is an Eastern Hindi language. I don't know anything about it, but if you look deep enough, every language starts to look like a collection of dialects, lol. I have noticed though, McGregor's Hindi dictionary does mark some words as "Bihari". From a cursory online search, it looks like Bhojpuri to me. Definitely mutually intelligible with Standard Hindi.


 * According to Wikipedia, the advancement of the Bihari languages has been hindered because:
 * These languages were legally absorbed under the overarching label Hindi in the 1961 Census. Such state and national politics are creating conditions for language endangerments.


 * The “Bihari language” corresponds to the territory of the Magadha kingdom before its expansion, and the Magahi language is also known Magadhi just like the Prakrit lect. Kutchkutch (talk) 09:20, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
 * There is not such thing as a monolithic "Bihari" language presently. It is a dialect continuum that has coalesced around Magahi, Maithili, and Bhojpuri, with other smaller lects that may achieve some kind of official status including Angika and Bajjika. Bihari also includes the Tharu languages of Nepal, which are not very standardised and understudied. You can see a rough map I've developed here. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 16:01, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Since the individual Bihari languages are represented here, do we have need of a ‘Bihari language’? This is sheer redundancy. If you want to unify the dialect continuum then abandon the individual languages/lects, or else delete this Bihari language. - ⸘ - dictātor · mundī  17:23, 23 April 2021 (UTC) P.S. Or, is the Bihari language meant for convenience so that one has not to look for the individual languages, while dealing with descendants in the descendant section? If so, then at the least it should not be a fullfledged language here.

Hi
It was good to meet you this afternoon.--Brett (talk) 23:58, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

भवत् IAST transliteration
Namaskar @AryamanA ji, I have noticed that you have written the IAST translation of भवत् as bhávat. Should it not be bhavat? Rishabhbhat (talk) 07:14, 23 June 2021 (UTC)


 * That is a . Even Monier-Williams shows it. 🔥 शब्दशोधक 🔥 08:30, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

آسُن (to be) in Kashmiri
While the Kashmiri آسُن (to be) is indeed pronounced like the Sanskrit आस्  the meaning is more similar to the root अस् (to be). Rishabhbhat (talk) 07:19, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

Help needed with tree data
Hi AryamanA! Since you were the one who welcomed me to Wiktionary, and also because we know e.o. from WP, I seek your help with this post of mine at the info desk which seems to have become stale. Should I cross-post it somewhere else, or it is probably easier that I might think? –Austronesier (talk) 06:42, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Naga Pidgin
Hello, the term Naga Pidgin is outdated long ago. As it's no longer a pidgin since it has native speakers. Therefore it's either a creole or just a language which isn't a creole (as linguist Peggy Mohan said). The widely used term for this language is Nagamese. An endonym is Nagamiz. I haven't seen any other terms currently being used for this language, therefore the name should be changed to Nagamese. Msasag (talk) 07:32, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Module:lt-pron
Hi, how do you think we can make progress on this? I think having a native speaker who is familiar with IPA check the test cases and provide more would be a good place to start. 70.175.192.217 03:31, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Agreed. The thing to start with would be to add tricky testcases to Module:lt-pron/testcases and have a native speaker verify the current ones. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 18:30, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

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Sanskrit verbs
Hi! I've taken a stab at a new model that I think you've seen at Module:User:Dragonoid76/sa-verb (although now it's much more developed). It should make adding conjugations to Sanskrit verbs similar to adding conjugations to Greek verbs, although there's a lot of complications and the whole thing will definitely require a few iterations. I have some TODOs, but please feel free to let me know what you think of it so far and if you see any bugs! Dragonoid76 (talk) 02:40, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

Waigali and Ishkashmi are not Dardic
On neojambu.glitch.me, Waigali (Nuristani) and Ishkashmi (Iranian) are listed as Dardic. Can you fix it? Thanks. Kwékwlos (talk) 11:46, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Discussion of User:AryamanA/Wonderfool
Hi Aryaman,

Where would be an appropriate place to discuss your userpage User:AryamanA/Wonderfool? I see you've redirected its discussion page to User:Wonderfool, presumably to redirect discussion of or for Wonderfool himself. But if I have a question / comment about the page itself, would it make sense to leave that here? (In particular I'm wondering if the rows in the table there are in any particular order.) Thanks. - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 15:42, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

आर्यमन अरौड़ा
Is that how your name is written देवनागरी में? I guessed the Arora based on the IPA you wrote. I wonder if I got it right or not.

Punjabi UD
Hello User Mahir256 pointed me towards your Universal Dependencies treebank for Punjabi and I would be interested to pick your brain about it if you are willing. What would be a good place to talk about this? I am interested in creating a Shahmukhi tree bank. -عُثمان (talk) 16:41, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I would be happy to talk about this! Best would be to click "email this user" on the left panel, and I'll respond there. You may also find the paper I presented about this at LREC this year useful: . —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 03:32, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the response! I had actually already seen your paper, that's partly how I found out about UD. I have been a bit busy lately but I will send you a message once I have had some time to do more reading on it properly. عُثمان (talk) 07:14, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Saraiki - Sansikrat Translation
Hello @AryamanA can you please add Sansikrat Devanagari script in our Saraiki Wiktionary already existed pages. It will be a great help for both Saraiki & Sansakrti Languages. Already existed pages link is here please: Saraiki | Sansikrat Dictionary Category

Thanks. MubasherKaleem (talk) 14:48, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Is sound
Does Hindi (or Indian Urdu for the fact) use the "is" sound in English words that start with "s"? Would help. ImprovetheArabicUnicode (talk) 04:15, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Urgent!
Both sites: http://jambu-clld.herokuapp.com/ and https://neojambu.glitch.me/ return error messages. Can you explain what happened and how to fix these sites? Kwékwlos (talk) 09:21, 8 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Any updates? Kwékwlos (talk) 11:26, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello? Kwékwlos (talk) 10:28, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Update: https://neojambu.glitch.me/ and http://jambu-clld.herokuapp.com/ are inaccessible. Is there any other way? Kwékwlos (talk) 22:00, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Use this link: https://aryaman.io/jambu. I will make sure this one always works. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 09:47, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Mass Changes by User:نعم البدل
Dear User:AryamanA, I hope you're doing well. I'm concerned about certain changes made by User:نعم البدل, particularly the removal of "Hindi" from words common to Hindustani/Hindi-Urdu vocabulary. The following are examples: Exhibit A, Exhibit B, and Exhibit C. I have reverted a few of these deletions and have asked the editor to gain consensus on the talk pages of each of the articles for which he seeks to omit information. I would appreciate if you could have a look and offer feedback with respect to this. Thanks, Anupam (talk) 15:14, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
 * The removal of a Hindi etymology from words shared by both Hindi and Urdu (which evolved together as Hindustani) is concerning. The edits of نعم البدل should be further scrutinized for more deletions. Editorkamran (talk) 15:36, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
 * 🤨 نعم البدل (talk) 21:54, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi . I hope you're well. I can understand your objections about the other two lemmas, but I'm slightly disappointed that you picked Delhi, considering the discussions we've been involved in over at Wikipedia. The English term Delhi, is actually a corruption of Urdu دہلی and not Hindi Dilli. As far as the other two are concerned, I'm willing to have a discussion about them on each of their talk pages. And yes - I was indeed going through English and Arabic lemmas etc and specifically focusing on lemmas which are actually derived from Urdu - not just attempting to "remove Hindi" from the etymology sections. You can check the categories that I've been editing from, for all you like - just so you are aware of my intentions. نعم البدل (talk) 19:22, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Also, I didn't edit "remove Hindi" from pages like کمبل or gari - lemmas which I was working on last night too! نعم البدل (talk) 19:51, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
 * User:نعم البدل, I appreciate you sharing your thoughts, but many of the words that have borrowed into English have both Hindi and Urdu as the origin and references are available to verify that. As User:Editorkamran noted above, Hindi and Urdu evolved together and thus, different dictionaries may list either or both Hindi and Urdu as the origin of a lemma. I am fine with the majority of the work that you are doing here on Wiktionary, though I object to the removal of Hindi on the entries that have been written here. With respect to Delhi, I do not object that the English name is derived from دہلی / देहली and not the modern دلّی / दिल्ली; what I objected to was the fact that you removed the Hindi spelling from the entry. Old sources use देहली as the Hindi spelling of the city (which is equivalent to دہلی), as is evident in publications such as Sarang: the Hindi Programme Journal of All India Radio. This should not be removed, but rather, reflected in the Wiktionary entry. In conclusion, please do continue your work on Wiktionary, but kindly do not remove Hindi etymologies from articles. I hope this helps. With regards, Anupam (talk) 22:06, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't see why Hindi or a Devanagari equivalent of an Urdu term has to be mentioned on pages/terms that originate specifically from Urdu (or even vice versa) - it's quite unnecessary and almost implies as if Urdu depends on Hindi. Even if, as you say, both of these languages 'evolved together'. I, on the other hand, in the past, have seen a lot of English terms where the terms are derived from 'Hindustani' but only the Hindi is mentioned. Maybe see Category:English terms derived from Hindi and compare Category:English terms derived from Urdu (notice how the Hindi category is almost 4x larger)?
 * As for your reference, with respect, I fail to see how it is relevant here or how it shows that potentially comes from the term  exists. It merely proves that the Hindi variant exists, which I never objected to, and frankly speaking, I didn't think my edits would have been objectionable, since I assumed it was pretty unanimous that the English Delhi was just a corrupted form of Urdu  (and not influenced by )? نعم البدل (talk) 22:24, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
 * The name of the city was historically pronounced as دہلی / देहली by Hindustani speakers (speakers of Hindi-Urdu). It is hard to separate them when speaking of the origin of the English word Delhi. Delhi: A Portrait by Khushwant Singh, states: "There has been considerable speculation about the origin of the odd-sounding name, Delhi (pronounced Dehlee by the literati, Dilli by the hoi-polloi). Some say it is derived from the Persian Dehleez or Hindi Dehali — threshold". Since we have sources stating that the name may be derived from Hindi, there is no reason not to include it. With regard to the larger category of English terms derived from Hindi, I have no problem with adding the Urdu spelling so that both scripts are reflected, unless there is a word that is perhaps never used in colloquial Urdu. I hope this helps. With regards, Anupam (talk) 22:33, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm getting confused which sources are you referring to that suggest Delhi comes from Hindi? And, I'm guessing you're aware of the fact that Urdu also used to be known as Hindi, right? I'm aware the the ultimate origin of Delhi (ie beyond. ) is disputed or unknown, but not when it comes to the English variant. نعم البدل (talk) 23:12, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I cited an example in my previous comment. I am aware that Urdu and Hindi were synonymous terms, especially prior to the 20th century. I think that is why I and others have discussed the difficulty in trying to isolate why words such as darwaza are purely Urdu words or purely Hindi words; such words are shared as Hindi-Urdu is a pluricentric language. It is for this reason, I object to edits, such as this. That being said, I know that you and I will continue to disagree, which is why I believe that we should let others comment to share their thoughts. Kind regards, Anupam (talk) 00:09, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Both Hindi and Urdu should absolutely be given, since we base the distinction on only script on Wiktionary. If someone writes Ghalib in Devanagari script, does that suddenly become Hindi and not Urdu? The distinction based on script is entirely artificial, and so we should give both scripts whenever possible. They are not different languages. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 00:41, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you User:AryamanA. Your comments are appreciated as always.I'd appreciate it if you could keep an eye on the aforementioned articles that I provided in the exhibits above. With regards, Anupam (talk) 03:42, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
 * While I disagree with your points, I'll comply with your suggestions for Delhi. Having said that, whether you believe them to be a single language or not, it is absolutely possible to differentiate between the two, and to still act like as if they are and will remain the same, is a bit comical. No, it's not as simple as transliterating Ghalib into Devanagari. I'm a bit disappointed, because now it does feel like that Urdu is uneccesarily dependent on Hindi. Delhi was borrowed specifically from Urdu, not Hindi. نعم البدل (talk) 10:11, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Category:Indian subcontinent
Hi Aryaman. Since you're quite a senior user of this community, I thought I'd ask you about this. I know that European countries and their Category are linked to Category:Europe (ie. Category:Belgium is subordinate to Category:Europe - so would it be wise to make categories of countries in the Indian subcontinent to be subordinate to Category:Indian subcontinent (which would be subordinate to South Asia)? نعم البدل (talk) 10:52, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Paisaci etymons
Hi, I've been looking at a couple of Sanskrit pages and had noticed that Punjabi entries were listed as descended from the Paisaci Prakrit, but Wikipedia seems to indicate that there is no attestation of Paisaci, nor in the region in which Punjabi is today spoken, instead citing Pollock as saying:

"'Linguists have identified this as everything from an eastern Middle-Indic dialect close to Pali to a Munda language of inhabitants of the Vindhya Mountains […] Paishachi is the joker in the deck of South Asian discourses on language, having an exclusively legendary status, since it is associated with a single lost text, the Bṛhatkathā (The Great Tale), which seems to have existed less as an actual text than as a conceptual category signifying the Volksgeist, the Great Repository of Folk Narratives'"

on the page for Paisaci, and stating elsewhere that Punjabi descends from Sauraseni Prakrit. Where do we derive the supposed Paisaci etymons from? Or are we treating Paisaci as a cover term for whatever Prakrit developed into Punjabi, and could we make sure that's reflected on the Punjabi language considerations page? I'm also curious as to if you have any sources regarding Paisaci. Thank you! Qwed117 (talk) 02:53, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Paisaci is basically unattested. A few grammarians have recorded words in the language but we don't have any access to texts that supposedly used to exist in it. For all Indo-Aryan languages (besides "Dardic" in the northwest) I would say to indicate etymologies from inc-pra, the cover code for all Prakrits. The regional Prakrits don't perfectly represent direct ancestors of the modern languages anyways. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 20:07, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

Your inputs needed for RfD on Wikidata regarding Hindi letters
Hi, currently there is an ongoing RfD discussion on deleting some lexeme entries for Hindi letters at Wikidata:Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions. Can your share your thoughts in the discussion? Disclaimer: those entries under discussion were created by me. Vis M (talk) 21:58, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Hindi correlatives
Hiǃ I've been editing/creating a lot of Hindi pages lately and thought it would be nice to have a correlatives appendix where all the pronouns are organized into a table the same way that some other languages do (i.e. Category:Pronoun appendices). I made it at Appendix:Hindi correlatives. I know you edit a lot of Hindi pages, so please take a look and make any suggestions or additions thereǃ Dragonoid76 (talk) 20:40, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Super late but this is very nice! —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 20:05, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
 * @Dragonoid76 Nice page! Do you want to add gender as well (for example vs ), or would that overcrowd the table? If you are ok, I can go ahead and add genders. --Siddhant (talk) 20:51, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
 * @Siddhant Sure! I kind of forgot about this page, and I suppose the goal was to eventually link it to the individual pages of the relatives, so it might make sense to link the masculine and feminine forms there. Dragonoid76 (talk) 23:28, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

Need your input on a policy impacting gadgets and UserJS
Dear interface administrator,

This is Samuel from the Security team and I hope my message finds you well.

There is an ongoing discussion on a proposed policy governing the use of external resources in gadgets and UserJS. The proposed Third-party resources policy aims at making the UserJS and Gadgets landscape a bit safer by encouraging best practices around external resources. After an initial non-public conversation with a small number of interface admins and staff, we've launched a much larger, public consultation to get a wider pool of feedback for improving the policy proposal. Based on the ideas received so far, the proposed policy now includes some of the risks related to user scripts and gadgets loading third-party resources, best practices for gadgets and UserJS developers, and exemptions requirements such as code transparency and inspectability.

As an interface administrator, your feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome until July 17, 2023 on the policy talk page.

Have a great day! Samuel (WMF), on behalf of the Foundation's Security team 23:02, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

igitur quotation
Something might have gone wrong at https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=igitur&diff=prev&oldid=60379684 with your AjaxEdit (possibly other pages affected as well). I only see the bullet point. Can you still see the quotation? Daniel.z.tg (talk) 06:44, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Fixed, apparently not including the line number for Captivi breaks it. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 20:11, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

Question
Hi i'm working on Module:ur-translit and it's has no bugs currently but there's on thing i'm confused about.

when a pesh اُ comes before a vao و before an ا, does it usually read as "ūā"/"uā" or "uvā"?? I noticed is "hūā" (हुआ) but  is "čuvāre" (छुवारे).

Is this a rare exception or is this common?? Currently this sequence defaults to -uva. Should I try to add a distinction between ūā and uvā in the module, or is it not important? I thought there was no distinction between "v" and "w" in hindustani, would transliterating ہوا as hvā be inaccurate?? I'm not entirely sure how to get around this, but it's it's a rarity I probably will just leave it to be manually entered.

I can also have it so that if a v appears after a consonant it becomes a short "u". If I did that then ہوا (no diacritics) becomes huā and خواب becomes xuāb, thoughts? If I did implement that should it only occur after some consonants or all of them? thank you. Also @نعم البدل, if you have thoughts on this سَمِیر | Sameer  (مشارکت‌ها • کتی من گپ بزن) 23:09, 6 September 2023 (UTC)


 * , in the cases where و is supposed to be a v, then a zabar on the vao + alif should return vā. If there's no zabar or if there's a jazm on the vao, then it should be ūā. نعم البدل (talk) 15:32, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

Marathi noun declension
Hi, I am a wiktionary newbie editor and marathi language learning beginner who likes grammar. I saw that you wrote a module for marathi noun declension (which is nowhere used and stated in your todo list as unfinished???). Is that right? Instead there is an (incomplete?) template menachism used, which list all possible combinations of gender and ending letters. I corrected one template and added another one, but the way how it is implemented now, it can't reflect different stem changes in oblique forms versus plural stem. (for example if there happens a shortening of a vowel in one and not the other, or transformation of s into sh).

Am I right about this? If I would like to have everywhere correct noun declensions, how could I contribute best? (Writing unit tests for your module, adapting the existing template mechanism to match all possible cases?) I am a software dev / tester. After some warm up phase I would surely be comfortable to write adapt / code. And to make sure to not mess up anything content wise, do you have any marathi grammar online book of reference here. I found some digitalized version of a very old marathi grammar, which state some rules and examples. (I have a modern printed textbook to learn Marathi in German.) I also cross check with wikipedia entries which use these words (in singular, plural nominative and oblique forms, but they could also theoretically be "wrong"). What is in your opinion a valid reference for the correct form? There seem to be only a handful of Marathi natives or near natives here?

I could try to write more templates / better templates (adding a parameter) or the tests to the best of my abilities and find somebody to check its correctness??? How to go from here?

And sorry for annoying you with my beginner questions, but you seem to be the one who knows.Undekagon30 (talk) 22:54, 21 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello . It's great to see that you are software dev / tester who is interested in developing Marathi declension on Wiktionary. Yes, there are stem changes such as vowel weakening and palatalisation of s to sh. At Talk:सारखे, we decided to make the neuter gender as the lemma form. I have created an outline at:
 * User:Kutchkutch/mr-decl
 * and User:Kutchkutch/mr-ndecl/cons-stem
 * However, I am not proficient enough at coding to implement this. AryamanA worked on MOD:mr-decl a few years ago, and I asked User:Benwing2 at User_talk:Benwing2/2020-2021#Marathi, but they have not had time to complete it. I haven't asked them about it again because I don't want to annoy them any further. Kutchkutch (talk) 22:25, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
 * @Undekagon30 It would be great if you were willing to work on this. I would recommend starting with Module:hi-noun, which implements Hindi noun declensions, and modifying it appropriately using the resources that @Kutchkutch has created. Since I think Marathi and Hindi declensions are fairly similar, this shouldn't be too hard to implement. You'd need to learn Lua if you're not familiar with it, but it's not too hard, as it's fairly similar to Python and even more so to JavaScript. Benwing2 (talk) 01:18, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Hallo, okay thank you for sharing all the necessary resources with me. I will try to figure out how the hindi and urdu noun declensions are implemented and how to test these things best. (I will also look into other languages (like my native tongue German, which seem to have a fancy module)). Because I am still a really beginning learner of Marathi I will in the end need somebody who can check if I got all the exceptions to the rules right, but I will start at some point and after I have figured some more basics in wiktionary formatting, templating, modules and so on show the results to you for approval. thank you for providing me with good informations in any case.
 * Undekagon30 (talk) 10:33, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Okay, I have now long enough stared at the 1500 lines of hindi declension code, urdu is still old style template based. It seems that hindi declension is different enough or at least the marathi noun declension rules are more easily stateable without reference on this hindi code. Either the well documented german declension code is adaptable enough or I will try to start to write this from scratch. Whatever the road to go, I will first break it down linguistically and create a little prototype on my user page to see how this all goes. When done with that I will ask again for opinions about the final end result / style and how to go about. I have gotten at least some idea / insight, and now only have to become better in Lua coding and wiki styling guidelines. But there are enough example pages where I can take snippets out to use. Undekagon30 (talk) 17:04, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
 * @AryamanA
 * @Benwing2
 * @Kutchkutch
 * I started trying out modules here https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Module:mr-noun-decl (complete WIP so far)
 * I will try to link it to an appropriate template (on my user page) and then create test cases with it. (like here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Module:mr-translit/testcases )
 * I used Benwing's German declension as a reference to understand how these things can be done, but will try to keep the module smaller (and if possible more modularized).
 * Isn't it better to keep the view (how this table is rendered) and the actual grammar rules (how to get the default dir_pl, obl_sg, obl_pl from given dir_sg and gender) separately?
 * And all of the other cases follow directly out of the oblique forms (obl_sg, obl_pl). They can be rendered by the already existing template as before, can't they??? Undekagon30 (talk) 11:30, 9 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Isn't it better to keep the view...and the actual grammar rules...separately?...And all of the other cases...can be rendered by the already existing template as before, can't they???
 * From what I understand, the forms need to be constructed by string operations and inserted into the template code. So, it seems plausible to first generate the forms as a data structure and then insert the data into the template code instead of doing both at the same time. However, since I am not proficient at coding, I do not know whether this is optimal.
 * From Template talk:mr-decl-noun:
 * In the minimal view I would like to see the direct (nominative) form AND the oblique form of a noun
 * That would be helpful considering that these are the most important forms. However, that was not done initially to keep the minimal view small and because the oblique forms are incomplete words.
 * When expanded I want to see all possible 8 "cases" properly displayed Are there any objections against it?...Why is the "ablative case" missing?
 * The ablative suffix [stem-ऊन/-हून] is currently missing because it could be considered a postposition rather than a ʹproperʹ grammatical case. However, if it can be shown correctly, then may be fine to show the ablative case. The locative suffixes [stem-त] and [stem-ई] cannot be affixed to every noun, so their productivity is on a case-by-case basis.   Kutchkutch (talk) 23:44, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Okay, that makes sense. I saw that in the Hindi noun declension template all forms are hidden and in the extended view there is direct, oblique and vocative (in singular and plural). In Hindi is the oblique form of a noun useable as a full word, agreed.
 * (I saw big discussions about what is a proper case and what can be seen only as a postposition somewhere in linguistic papers, but as I have understood it, most of the case endings derived in historical times also from postpositions and became then absorbed, correct me if I am wrong. I think this view on grammar in terms of cases stems from either sanskrit scholars or the first english missionaries in india (???) which saw it through the lense of sanskrit / latin grammar)
 * (I saw big discussions about what is a proper case and what can be seen only as a postposition somewhere in linguistic papers, but as I have understood it, most of the case endings derived in historical times also from postpositions and became then absorbed, correct me if I am wrong. I think this view on grammar in terms of cases stems from either sanskrit scholars or the first english missionaries in india (???) which saw it through the lense of sanskrit / latin grammar)



Undekagon30 (talk) 19:04, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

IPA Prononunciation for Punjabi <ਭਾਈ/بھائی>
I noticed you changed /pɑ̀ː.iː/ to /pɑː˩˨.iː/ and this seems very deliberate but it doesn't fit with how tone usually works in Punjabi, and I opened a clip of someone saying the word and it indeed had falling/low tone but this is a small sample size, I thought I'd just check in before making an edit. ChromeBones (talk) 18:31, 26 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Sorry forgot to specify, opened the clip in the tool Praat which can analyze tone and showed falling tone ChromeBones (talk) 18:32, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Punjabi Verb Conjugation Module
Hi, I have gone over the module you made for the Punjabi verb conjugation template Module:pa-verb and there are a plethora of errors throughout it including typos. It seems to be mostly copy pasted from the Hindi module, although Punjabi grammar is different. I will hopefully start work on another module in the same style correcting these issues, thought I would address this to you though. OblivionKhorasan (talk) 07:22, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Accessing Morgenstierne's NTS articles (and Buddruss/Degener 2015)
Hello. Right now I am focusing on Prasuni (and the rest of Nuristani) using Richard Strand's Nuristani Etymological Lexicon, but if you could help me access these two sources, it would be great.

Can you help me access these articles (if your university permits it?) Kwékwlos (talk) 06:30, 11 July 2024 (UTC)