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Shabdle: Wordle in Hindi

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Re: Shabdle: Wordle in Hindi

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captn3m0 wrote: post #33
plibither8 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Even then, today’s word is pretty impossible to guess. The Wordle formula is too restrictive for a language like Hindi. Written word-games aren’t a thing in Hindi (like Hangman for eg) but we do have a lot of stuff rhyme based games. Probably other ways to tackle this better.

> Written word-games aren’t a thing in Hindi but we do have a lot of stuff rhyme based games

Interesting observation, and I can't help but wonder if this is loosely correlated to literacy. Since most of these games were developed to pass time by the masses, it only makes sense that they be verbal rather than written.

Re: Shabdle: Wordle in Hindi

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Post by [deleted] »

Grumpy34 wrote: post #23
tnsittpsif wrote: post #10

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.

I'm also a native Hindi speaker and I've never in my life used the word which is the correct answer. The game creator should have chosen more popular words.

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Re: Shabdle: Wordle in Hindi

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Post by aareet »

dxbydt wrote: post #39
nsenifty wrote: post #38

Kannada version - https://wordalla.online/

Heh heh! Too clever by half. In Kannada, wordalla can be parsed in 2 ways - wordalla => "word alla" == "not the word" wordalla => "wordle uh?" == "Isn't this Wordle ?"

haha I read it as "word ella.online" == "all the words are online"

Re: Shabdle: Wordle in Hindi

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1024core wrote: post #20

Hindi 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.

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Re: Shabdle: Wordle in Hindi

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Post by contingencies »

lgessler wrote: post #28
1024core wrote: post #20

Hindi 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.

This is referred to as the varṇamālā: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari#Letters Here's a good explanation from Richard Salomon (2003), "Writing Systems of the Indo-Aryan Languages". Note the startling suggestion that this arrangement might have been systematized even before the advent of writing! > In this system, usually referred to as varṇamālā ‘garland of letters’, the characters are divided into vowels (sv…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmi_script#Consonants_2 shows the groupings of the earlier stage of the script.

The Korean script, invented much later, is also impressively phonetic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul#Consonants

Re: Shabdle: Wordle in Hindi

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Post by selimthegrim »

abdullahkhalids wrote: post #37

Here is the Urdu version https://urdle.chaoticity.com/ I would like someone to do an analysis of quantifying difficulty in terms of alphabet size, word size, and vocabulary size. Because I don't know what the actual difficulty here is vs the English or the Hindi version. That would be first order analysis. Second order analysis would consider the structure of words in different languages, such as how often pairs of l…

I have guessed words like ‘naafiz’ (enforcement) that I suppose didn’t make the Urdle word list cut. I also suspect there is a slight bias towards Arabic and Persian words
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