Speak Hindi all day, but cannot guess a single letter in a 100 tries! Shows how much this language's usage in writing and reading has declined.
devanagari is not meant for such puzzles
Shabdle: Wordle in Hindi
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#13One tip: don't use words with a sandhi [1] (like today's word). It makes guessing it many more times harder, since you are actually guessing two (or more) words in addition to the joining letters. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandhi
I agree with this suggestion! However, I wonder if it's only because we don't read and write Hindi on a daily basis (as compared to English).
Also, I'd just like to say that this take of Hindi Wordle is the best so far - fill in the व्यंजन (consonants) with the स्वर (vowels) supplied as hints.
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#15Just wanted to note that this is not my creation. I found this randomly linked on Twitter. I tried some but could not find the original creator.
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#16Speak Hindi all day, but cannot guess a single letter in a 100 tries! Shows how much this language's usage in writing and reading has declined.
Do most Hindi speakers now use the Latin script?
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#17One tip: don't use words with a sandhi [1] (like today's word). It makes guessing it many more times harder, since you are actually guessing two (or more) words in addition to the joining letters. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandhi
One of the Bengali versions let go of all the consonant clusters, phala, reph, chandrabindu. You can only build words with letters and karas.
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#18As someone learning hindi, I'm looking forward to trying this.
Shaabash!
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#19Just wanted to note that this is not my creation. I found this randomly linked on Twitter. I tried some but could not find the original creator.
Based on the source code I think this person is the creator - https://cs.stanford.edu/~kach/
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#20Hindi alphabet, interestingly, is arranged in the order of the part of the mouth that makes the sound. For example, sounds generated at the back of the mouth (like "k", "g", etc.) are listed first, and then you move forward to sounds like "t", "d", and finally sounds involving the lips, like "p", "f", etc.
I found this arrangement fascinating. Unlike the jumble of letters that is the Latin alphabet.