[Corpora-List] Which Statistical Test is Suitable

[fatima zuhra]

I guess another type of such spelling variations is the use of “do chashmi hay” instead of “hay” e.g. In my name, some people write the “hay” in “Zuhra” as  ہ. Other people write the same “hay” as “do chashmi hay” i.e. ھ. There are also other examples of such variations e.g. in “chaahaiye” (that means “need”) and “rahain” (that means “remain”). 
 
Regards.
 
Fatima Tuz Zuhra
Ph.D. Scholar and Lecturer,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Peshawar, Pakistan.


--- On Thu, 7/14/11, True Friend <true.friend2004 at gmail.com> wrote:


From: True Friend <true.friend2004 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Which Statistical Test is Suitable
To: "fatima zuhra" <fateeshah at yahoo.com>
Cc: "corpora" <corpora at uib.no>
Date: Thursday, July 14, 2011, 12:36 PM



Dear Corpora Members
Thanks for your responses. I am actually having a research on spelling alternation of ا alif  and ہ hay (two Urdu letters). There has been a long debate among scholars that which word should be written with which letter. For example the word Ghonsa (English: Punch) can be written as گھونسا (ending at alif) or as گھونسہ (ending at hay) with no change in meaning. In most cases the frequencies are clearly different. There is a clear choice for Alif or Hay variant, but in some cases the frequencies correlate very closely. I've selected the words which have very close frequencies in each variant (with no change in meaning of the word of course), now I wanted to summarize the group bahaviour by applying correlation formula etc. An example of such variant spellings is as follows:






Alif Variant
Freq
Hay Variant
Freq.

بیڑا
587
بیڑہ
508

پٹا
97
پٹہ
116

ٹھکانا
586
ٹھکانہ
725 
As you can see the frequencies are closely related, my aim was to summarize the group behaviour. The point here is to show the general public's usage, that despite of rules available, people are confused in spelling of these words.
Hopefully this would elaborate why I asked.
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