On several posts I wrote about Google Transliteration. First they introduced it to Hindi then later other Indian languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada also supported. Few months later they started to support more scripts such as Arab, Hebrew etc.
Today I found something interesting. Yeah now Google Transliterate supports Sinhalese too. Basically Google Transliterate is knowledge based phonetic translator.
Personally I don’t recommend anyone to use Google Transliterate as it’ll spoil your typing speed as well as you’ll become so dependent on Google, which is not good at all.
Anyway it’s good to have Sinhalese support. Soon this transliteration service will be available for Sinhalese in other Google’s products such as Gmail, Orkut, Google Search, Blogger etc. Especially the desktop IME client Google Transliterate IME will also be available soon.
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ravi says
Mayu, how active is the sinhala writing community online? Do they use their language as much as Tamils from Lanka?
Mayooresan says
@Ravi
They are very much active. You can check Sinhala bloggers activities on http://kottu.org.
beside Sinhala bloggers, SL gov making initiatives such as localisations (both in Sinhala & Tamil). Now softwares such as Firefox, vista, office localised with the help of SL gov and Moratuwa university.
Even Sinhala WordPress community is active. They have WordPress.org in sinhala 🙂
http://si.wordpress.org
Dinesh Sameera says
Well. That’s a good news.
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sameera says
nice
Kathir Vel says
Recently noticed that Google translator has a lot of languages that are not particularly easy to translate. Mind blowing, how they do it! Tamil for example can be quite a tough one.