NAVIGATION

Home

Features

Screenshots

How To Use

Download

Dictionaries

Order Page

Support

Contact Us

Awards

Links

Site Map

VERSION

  Current Version: 4.7.554
  Last Update: 27/01/2006
  File Size: 4 904 Kb

  Dictionaries: 240
  Phrase Glossaries: 38
  Languages: 80

SPOTLIGHT

COPYRIGHT

All rights reserved
Copyright © 1999-2006
Ice-LC Software

Sanskrit

Old Indo-Aryan language, the classical literary language of the Hindus of India. Vedic Sanskrit, based on a dialect of northwestern India, dates from as early as 1800 BC and appears in the text of the Rigveda; it was described and standardized in the important grammar book by Panini, dating from about the 5th century BC. Literary activity in so-called Classical Sanskrit, which is close to but not identical with the language described by Panini, flourished from c. 500 BC to AD 1000 and continued even into modern times. Currently, a form of Sanskrit is used not only as a learned medium of communication among Hindu scholars but also as a language for some original writing. The language, written in the Devanagari script is, in fact, undergoing something of a revival, though it is neither a widespread nor a usual mother tongue. (Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.)

All rights reserved for the authors of the dictionaries. Please, contact the authors of the dictionaries for all questions concerning the contents and copyrights of the dictionaries.

T.H.I.S. makes input of complex scripts easier & faster:

The Heidelberg Input Solution

© 2003 by Bao Do (Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany), Roomy Naqvy (JMI, New Delhi, India) & Linguasoft (Vienna, Austria)

Set #1: Sanskrit / Pali / Hindi

T.H.I.S. Set #1 comes with a set of Keyman(tm)-based mnemonic keyboards for the input of Sanskrit, Pali, and Hindi in Devanagari script or Latin transliteration. Keyboard layouts follow the standard layouts of Kbd US, Kbd US International, and Kbd DE (German). Typing Devanagari is now as easy as typing Latin script, as both can be typed with exactly the same keys or key combinations! What's more, you can type any language supported by Kbd US International or Kbd DE *without* having to switch back to the standard drivers for these keyboards. For more sophisticated requirements, special rules for typing combining accents have been provided that help you to create thousands of accented Latin characters needed for specialized linguistic or scientific text input. There are also special rules for Hindi transliteration by using combining tilde, and special rules for dashes and typographic quotes (English, French, and German variants) that allow you to make full use of your word-processor's typographic capabilities without having to activate AutoFormat options that may produce unwanted results in certain contexts.

Note: For full support of Unicoded Indic scripts, you should use Microsoft WindowsXP and/or Microsoft OfficeXP environments.

Download:
HeidelbergIME.zip (package includes Keyman 5 runtime)
HeidelbergIMEkmx.zip (kmx files only, without Keyman 5 runtime)
The Heidelberg Input Solution - a PDF file that explains all rules in full detail

Any comments or suggestions? Please contact baodo@t-online.de or linguasoft@surfeu.at

Graphic design by Tatyana Bersenyova