re: punctuation in telugu

Ramana Juvvadi (juvvadi@allegra.att.com)
Wed, 15 Nov 95 10:26:15 EST

One nasty problem in writing a spell checker for telugu is that there is
no standard way to provide spacing between words. Consider

1. ekkaDanunchi vastunnaavu?
2. ekkaDa nunchi vastunnaavu?

Another problem is counting the modifiers of a words. Once I tried to list out
the variants of the verb "cheppu" which would be legal spellings. I remember
listing out no less than 60! For example consider

cheppee cheppaka cheppE aa maaTalO cheppalEni cheppagaraani
bhaavaalu ennennO

After all that I wasn't sure I covered everything. I am not sure how much
research have linguists done on this. If nothing has been done I think it would
be a good topic for an aspiring linguist!

Ramana