Forum Rules & Online Resources for Indo-Iranian Languages

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Welcome to the Indo-Iranian Languages Forum (IIR)!

The scope of this forum are all the contemporary members of the IIR family: Hindi, Urdu, Persian, Afghan Persian/Dari, Gujarati, Punjabi, Romani, Pali, Nepali, and many many more.

Please indicate clearly which language(s) you want to discuss.
Some examples of existing threads:

  • Urdu: jaaiz
  • Hindi: jana
  • Hindi/Urdu: confusing, confused, confusion
  • Persian: How was your trip?
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Avestan
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Old Persian (+)
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Persian
Punjabi
Sanskrit
Sogdian (+)
Urdu

(Languages marked with a + are extinct / dead languages.
They are only added to this list for the sake of completeness)

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    In order to achieve the WR missions, discussions in the fora are moderated in keeping with the forum rules. Here is a quick explanation of the most important ones.

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    Frank06

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    Dictionaries
    - http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/index.html -- A collection of South Asian dictionaries (some of which a bit dated) including Assamese, Baluchi, Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Khowar, Lushai, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Pali, Pashto, Persian, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Torwali and Urdu.
     
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    Hindi
    Dictionaries:
    Shabdkosh | शब्दकोश : English Hindi Dictionary and Translation - English-Hindi
    Shabdkosh | शब्दकोश : English Hindi Dictionary and Translation - English-Hindi (downloadable)
    The Oxford Hindi-English dictionary - Oxford Hindi-English dictionary

    Phrase Books:
    Learn Hindi Online - a collection of phrases

    Writing:
    http://www.iit.edu/~laksvij/language/hindi.html - transliterates to Hindi characters
    http://www.devanaagarii.net/hi/girgit/ - converts script from Devanagri to Indic
    giitaayan - Hindi Songs Lyrics - a resource for viewing Hindi songs in Devanagri
    Urdu page - explanation of Devanagri letters and Nastaliq (ie Arabic) letters
    Hindi Script Tutor - An interactive tutor of the Devanagari script and pronunciations.
    Urdu-Hindi Transliteration/Translation System :: Default Page Romanization tool, and transliteration between Urdu and Hindi.

    Online Lessons:
    http://www.learning-hindi.com free lessons of Hindi, with audio. New!
    http://home.unilang.org/courses/hindi/ - a basic course in Hindi
    Faculty at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University - course provided by Syracuse University
    Learn Hindi Language - provides Hindi tutorials
    Best Hindi Websites - another Hindi beginners site
    A Door Into Hindi by Afroz Taj - Online lessons with accompanying videos.

    Grammar:
    http://home.unilang.org/courses/hindi/ - overview of Hindi grammar
    Outline of Hindi Grammar : R. S. McGregor : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The McGregor grammar

    Reading:
    Hindi Lesson 1Ukindia - learn how to read Hindi

    Miscellaneous:
    http://lang.ojnk.net/hindi/ - resources for intermediate Hindi, how to display Hindi in unicode
    ISpeakHindi.com - A blog featuring daily podcasts which teach basic Hindi vocabulary and pronunciation.
     
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    Persian

    Dictionaries:
    http://www.loghatnaameh.com/ -Dehxodaa's loghatnaameh
    http://www.rismoon.com/moeenletterindex-fa.html -Moin's Farhang-e Farsi
    http://www.farsidic.com/ -Farsidic (English-Persian-English)
    http://www.ariadic.com/ - English-Persian (both directions)
    http://dic.amdz.com/ - English-Persian (left); Persian-English (right)
    http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/steingass/ - Comprehensive Perisan-English dictionary including the Arabic words and phrases to be met with in Persian literature
    http://www.wdgco.com/dic/- English- Persian (both directions)
    http://www.loghatnameh.de/ - German-Persian (both directions)
    http://farsi.free-dict.de/ - German-Persian (both directions)
    http://www.trilinguis.ru/linguistic/...ictionary.aspx - Rusian-Persian (both directions)
    http://www.math.columbia.edu/~safari/masood/cgi-bin/ - English-Persian Dictionary
    http://www.farsi123.com/ English-Persian/Persian-English dictionary
    http://anzaliport.pmo.ir/fa/filepoo...59addb23099e0d60eee51ae2e2c6db1f6b35e833c3aa2 English-Persin dictionary for commercial terms
    http://www.hooshyar.com/ Persian, French, Italian Spanish (both directions)

    Online Courses:
    http://www.easypersian.com - Very good method for learning Persian, basic to intermediate
    http://persa.sencilla.googlepages.com/ - Spanish translation of the above (but only a third of the lessons are translated)
    (other links available through these sites)
    http://members.tripod.com/~shahriar/persian/titlepage.html - Basic course
    http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/Lessons/PfBindex.html - Persian course of Iraj Bashiri
    http://moscowicro.googlepages.com/V_Ivanov-Persian_Reading.pdf - Persian for Russian speakers (part one). Its homepage links to more things.
    http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/elib/ltext/pes/pdf/a.pdf - Persian for Japanese speakers
    http://www.nyu.edu/pages/gsasweb/dept/mideast/virtualpersian/index.html - Persian course in five levels of elementary to advanced
    http://ajabanzaban.com/learn/l_index.html - Learn Persian today!
    http://www.princeton.edu/~plhulick/persian/ - Modern Persian Spoken and Written
    http://www.persianschool.net/FB/FB.htm - a textbook with audio for students of all ages
    http://www.iub.edu/~celcar/intermediate/tajikinter.html - Intermediate Tajiki Persian textbook from the University of Indiana (need register to access)
    http://www.madressa.net/CMSnew/content/view/42/86/ - Stanmore classes. The course duration is 40 weeks. Class Notes and supporting material may be found there.
    http://www.persiandee.com/view/showLesson/currentLesson/0 Lessons covering several levels.


    Grammar:
    http://sites.la.utexas.edu/persian_online_resources/     grammar and phonology. Uses transliteration for examples.http://anamnese.online.fr/iran/gramm_iranien.pdf - basic grammar in French. Warning: Seems to deal with both colloquial and formal language forms
    http://www.fazel.de/dastur/EN/index.html - "Academic grammar" (Persian, English, German)
    http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Persisch:_Übersicht - Wiki-book (in German)
    http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Persian/Contents - Wiki-book (English)
    http://www.auditorium.ru/books/2360/gl4.pdf - introduction (Russian, PDF)
    http://www.archive.org/details/higherpersiangra032060mbp - The largest and most complete English grammar of Persian, "A Higher Persian Grammar", by D. C. Phillott
    http://books.google.fr/books?id=Ru1ncSqiRXkC&printsec=titlepage#PPA7,M1 - An old grammar of the Persian Language, by Meerza Mohammad Ibraheem


    About Persian:
    http://www.jahanshiri.ir/- A guide to reading Persian


    Software:
    http://www.jahanshiri.ir/pvc/pvc.php - Persian verb conjugator
    http://www.jahanshiri.ir/apps/persconv.html - Persian convertor. Converts the Persian written in a defined transliteration scheme into Persian script
    http://www.jahanshiri.ir/apps/perskb.html - Online Persian keyboard

    Texts
    Free Persian Library
    http://rira.ir/rira/php/?page=view&m...d=classicpoems

    Writing:
    www.unipers.com - Romanization of Persian
    http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=2525415 Thread with suggested online and printed resources to learn Nastaliq script and writing.

    Others:
    http://www.auditorium.ru/books/2360/ - Various articles about the Iranian languages (in Russian, links to PDF files)
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/ - BBC news in Persian
     
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    Punjabi/Panjabi

    Dictionaries:
    http://www.ijunoon.net/punjabi_dic/ - English-Punjabi-English
    Punjabi(Gurmukhi,Shahmukhi) to English Dictionary:: ACTDPL Punjabi University, Patiala Punjabi-English Dictionary online version - Punjabi University, Patiala, India (Romanized, Shahmukhi and Gurmukhi supported, with audio pronunciation samples).

    Online courses:
    Online Punjabi Teaching (Punjabi University, Patiala, India, Advanced Centre for Technical Development of Punjabi Language, Literature and Culture).
    http://www.advancedcentrepunjabi.org/intro1.asp - vocabulary, ortography and more

    Writing:
    Learn Gurmukhi_____(APNA) Academy of The Punjab in North America - teaches the Gurmukhi script for those who know Shahmukhi
    http://www.crulp.org/Downloads/Phonetic KeyBoard.pdf - phonetic keyboard for typing in Punjabi (Shahmukhi script)
    http://www.iit.edu/~laksvij/language/punjabi.html - transliterates to Punjabi characters

    Reading:
    http://www.advancedcentrepunjabi.org/intro1.asp - learn how to read Punjabi
    ukindia punjabi lesson 1 - learn how to read Punjabi

    Miscellaneous:
    http://www.learnpunjabi.org/onlineresources.aspx List of online resources to learn Punjabi, including tools for typing, proofreading, translation and transliteration
     
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    Sanskrit

    Dictionary:
    http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/sanskrit/tutor.php - Sanskrit-English (click on "Sanskrit dictionary" to start Java)
    http://sanskrit.inria.fr/DICO/ - Sanskrit-French
    http://asignoret.free.fr/index_ang.html - French-Sanskrit (downloadable), with interactive grammar
    http://webapps.uni-koeln.de/tamil/ - two Sanskrit-English dictionaries
    http://www3.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~tjun/sktdic/index.html - Sanskrit-English
    http://spokensanskrit.de/ - Sanskrit-English (both directions), focus on daily communication
    http://webapps.uni-koeln.de/tamil/ -English-Sanskrit, Tamil

    Vocabulary:
    http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/sanskrit/gloss.php - glossaries of most common words

    Writing    :
    http://www.iit.edu/~laksvij/language/sanskrit.html - transliterates to Sanskrit characters
    http://dsal.uchicago.edu/digbooks/di...K419.V468_1983 - a primer in Grantha characters

    Courses:
    http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/sanskrit/tutor.html - lessons for self-study
    http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/l...vedol-0-R.html - ancient Sanskrit lessons

    Miscellaneous:
    http://sanskritlibrary.org/ - a digital library with primary texts in Sanskrit (free registration needed)
     
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    Urdu


    Online course:
    http://dsal.uchicago.edu/digbooks/di...983.N2_1999_V1 - Introductory Urdu, volume 1
    http://dsal.uchicago.edu/digbooks/di...983.N2_1999_V2 - Introductory Urdu, volume 2

    Dictionaries:
    UrduWord.com English-Urdu Dictionary and Lessons - a browseable and searchable English dictionary (both directions), also Word of the Day
    Urdu - English Dictionary - alphabetical dictionary, Urdu-English only
    http://www.apniurdu.com/Dict/A.html?...f8937bc27b1bab - alphabetical dictionary, English-Urdu only
    http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~navin/india/urdu.dictionary - alphabetical dictionary, Urdu-English only
    Comprehensive English Urdu Dictionary with Advance Search | Urduseek.com English Urdu Dictionary انگریزی اردو لغت - Urdu-English; English-Urdu
    Urdu dictionary, Urdu poetry, shayaris, ghazals, urdu prose, english urdu dictionary, learning urdu, urdu language, urdu verses, urdu words, Shayari, Urdu Shayari, Hindi Shayari, Urdu Ghazal, Ghazal - Urdu-English
    A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English. - comprehensive (but dated) etymological Hindi/Urdu dictionary ever.
    crulp.org -&nbsp Resources and Information. - Urdu Dictionary (monolingual)
    Feroz - ul - Lughat (Jame) By Maulvi Ferozuddin (r.a) : islamicbookslibrary : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive - Feroz-ul-Lughat Urdu dictionary (monolingual)
    Urdu Encyclopedia اردو دائرۃ معارف العلوم - نو مولود - Urdu Encyclopedia (monolingual)
    Internet Archive Search: creator:"Amad Dihlav, Sayyid, 1846-1918" - Farhang-e-Asafiyyah Urdu dictionary (monolingual)
    القاموس الجدید - Urdu-Arabic
    مصباح اللغات - Arabic-Urdu
    القاموس الوحید - Arabic-Urdu
    المنجد - Arabic-Urdu
    کنزاللغات - Arabic-Urdu-English
    فیروز اللغات - Persian-Urdu
    فرہنگ امثال - Arabic and Persian sayings, poetry, expressions, etc. commonly used in Urdu
    Qaumi English Urdu Dictionary
    Urdu Dictionary & Translations | Oxford Dictionaries Oxford Urdu-English dictionary (with diacritics).


    Vocabulary:
    Learn Urdu online - useful phrases
    Urdu Phrases (Moved Now) - useful phrases (also in the Urdu script)
    http://www.gorin.com/phrase/urdu.html - for tourists

    Reading:
    Ukindia Learn Urdu Page - learn how to read Urdu
    http://dsal.uchicago.edu/digbooks/di...KID=PK1975.N18 - readings (prose, poetry)
    Urdu Poetry, Urdu Shayari of Famous Poets - Rekhta Urdu poetry and literature, available in Urdu and Devanagrai scripts and in romanization

    Writing:
    Persian, Urdu: Learning Nastaliq Thread with suggested online and printed resources to learn Nastaliq script and writing.
    Google ان پٹ ٹولز آن لائن آزمائیں – Google ان پٹ ٹولز Transliteration tool Roman/Urdu
    Urdu-Hindi Transliteration/Translation System :: Default Page Another romanization tool, and transliteration between Urdu and Hindi.

    Thesaurus:
    http://ijunoon.com/urdudic/thesaurus.asp
     
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