Tag: Urdu
How Silicon Valley’s Cultural Blind Spot Excluded 4 Billion Users
The author examines why technology adoption in emerging markets has remained chronically low despite more than three decades of localization efforts. Using Indic languages as an example, he explains how he believes the failure began, why it has persisted for so long, and what it will take to finally resolve it.
News by Hand
Why would anyone handwrite a newspaper? The Musalman — a four-page Urdu paper that has been written, every day, by hand ever since it was founded in 1927 — suggests that the act of writing by hand (and its sister act, the act of reading handwriting), incorporates far more than the mere transmission of information.
The trials and tribulations of digitizing Urdu, the 10th most spoken language in the world
Because Nastalīq has been so challenging to adapt to a digital format, many Urdu speakers have taken to using Naskh, which is written along straight horizontal lines, or even using a non-standardized form of the language that uses Latin script.