How to determine the language of the printed text? (European languages)
Seeing a beautiful and clear flowchart describing how to distinguish one script from another, I was surprised. First of all, the fact that it turned out to be interesting to someone. But since that scheme seemed curious, then I will try to continue the topic begun by the respected soulburner . Here we will talk about how to distinguish European languages from each other.
For a start, what are European languages? I propose to limit the official languages of European countries. Since the borders of Europe are controversial, we make a reservation about neighboring countries separately. Spiritually close Israel, as well as Georgia and Armenia can be distinguished by writing from the same flowchart, I will include Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan out of spiritual kindness, and Abkhazia and South Ossetia - as a trough before the Russian authorities. So the Abkhazian will fall into our classifier, and the Basque and Gaelic - well, no, they will interrupt.
More languages than types of writing. Therefore, the chart turned out big. We will distinguish languages from each other mainly by special letters, in particular, by letters with diacritical marks (diacritics). Diacriticism can occur over a vowel (in the letter d), above the consonant (the letter č), or it can somehow accompany the letter (as in the letter ç; strictly speaking, this is not dikritika at all, but we will adhere to such jargon here). The most famous (from my point of view) badges in Europe are umlaut (aka diaeresis: ü), a nut (č) and an acute (é).
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UPD: Colleagues helped correct colors, corrected a couple of errors indicated by users (Turkish and Polish), mentioned French articles (if someone really wants to use the scheme, then they reliably distinguish French from other Romance ones, and there are at least diacritics).
old version of the scheme .
For a start, what are European languages? I propose to limit the official languages of European countries. Since the borders of Europe are controversial, we make a reservation about neighboring countries separately. Spiritually close Israel, as well as Georgia and Armenia can be distinguished by writing from the same flowchart, I will include Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan out of spiritual kindness, and Abkhazia and South Ossetia - as a trough before the Russian authorities. So the Abkhazian will fall into our classifier, and the Basque and Gaelic - well, no, they will interrupt.
More languages than types of writing. Therefore, the chart turned out big. We will distinguish languages from each other mainly by special letters, in particular, by letters with diacritical marks (diacritics). Diacriticism can occur over a vowel (in the letter d), above the consonant (the letter č), or it can somehow accompany the letter (as in the letter ç; strictly speaking, this is not dikritika at all, but we will adhere to such jargon here). The most famous (from my point of view) badges in Europe are umlaut (aka diaeresis: ü), a nut (č) and an acute (é).
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UPD: Colleagues helped correct colors, corrected a couple of errors indicated by users (Turkish and Polish), mentioned French articles (if someone really wants to use the scheme, then they reliably distinguish French from other Romance ones, and there are at least diacritics).
old version of the scheme .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/154951/
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