Tamil grammar in silicon
Tamil has had written grammars for about two thousand years. This series asks whether they are precise enough to run on a chip: whether the forms of a Tamil noun, மரம் becoming மரத்தில் and மரங்கள், can be computed from the verses of Tolkāppiyam and Naṉṉūl, with nothing stored. Nouns first.
- Part 1 · Nouns as verses, and one bit operation
Tamil noun declension as verses, and one bit operation that computes மரங்கள் from மரம் and கள் using place of articulation from Tolkāppiyam. - Part 2 · How a stem meets its ending, and what is on the chip
How a Tamil noun stem meets its case ending, the Naṉṉūl and Tolkāppiyam verses behind each step, and what the FPGA does.
Everything is at github.com/Ramaseshanr/tamil-grammar-silicon. If you know Tolkāppiyam or Naṉṉūl, or work on Tamil computation, please check the readings and tell me where they are wrong.