2 papers
cs.CL2025
ParsTranslit: Truly Versatile Tajik-Farsi Transliteration
Rayyan Merchant, Kevin Tang
As a digraphic language, the Persian language utilizes two written standards: Perso-Arabic in Afghanistan and Iran, and Tajik-Cyrillic in Tajikistan. Despite the significant simila…
cs.CL2025
Connecting the Persian-speaking World through Transliteration
Rayyan Merchant, Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao, Kevin Tang
Despite speaking mutually intelligible varieties of the same language, speakers of Tajik Persian, written in a modified Cyrillic alphabet, cannot read Iranian and Afghan texts writ…