LINGUIST List 33.2266
Thu Jul 14 2022
FYI: Wanted: Burmese Names Data
Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>
Date: 07-Jul-2022
From: David Harris <novialist
gmail.com>
Subject: Wanted: Burmese Names Data
E-mail this message to a friend Greetings:
As a hobby, I have developed several web apps where you can enter your name in Roman script and see it converted into another script. I have several in place currently, including Arabic, Cherokee, Cyrillic, Greek, Inuktikut and others.
I'm interested in developing rule sets to process abugida type scripts, and I would be very interested in getting ahold of large sets of phonebook data for Burmese-script names and those in other similar scripts. (As a side note, similar names data for other Southeast Asian languages such as Khmer, Lao and Thai would also be of interest. And the scripts of India.)
I'm willing to pay a small amount for this material. I can't pay much because this is not a commercial project and I am not earning any money from it. But I’m certainly willing to pay something along the order of what a retail customer might pay for a CD set of such data.
If you can help, I’d be most grateful. And, if you’re interested in seeing what my script converter pages do, here’s a sample link to the Arabic one:
https://languages-of-the-world.org/Arabic/Typewriter.html Thanks in advance,
David Harris
Salt Lake City
Linguistic Field(s): Lexicography
Subject Language(s):
Burmese (mya)
Page Updated: 14-Jul-2022