Incomplete Romanization
Incomplete romanization of Serbian is written using the English alphabet, also known as ASCII Serbian. It is commonly used in SMS messages, comments on the Internet or e-mails, mainly because users don't have available Serbian keyboard installed. Serbian is a fully phonetic language with 30 sounds that can be represented with 30 Cyrillic letters, or 28 Gaj's Latin letters and two digraphs ("nj" for "њ", and ”lj" for "љ"). In its ASCII form number of used letters drops down to 22, as letters "q", "w", "x" and "y" are not used. Some words morph into the same written form and a good knowledge of Serbian and a sentence context is required for proper understanding of the written text.
Using incomplete romanization does not allow for easy transliteration back to Cyrillic without a significant manual work. Google tried using machine learning approach to solving this problem and developed an interactive text input tool that enable typing Serbian in ASCII and auto-converting to Cyrillic. However manual typing is still required with occasional disambiguation selection from the pop up menu.
Read more about this topic: Romanization Of Serbian
Famous quotes containing the word incomplete:
“I dont think there is anything on earth more wonderful than those wistful incomplete friendships one makes now and then in an hour’s talk. You never see the people again, but the lingering sense of their presence in the world is like the glow of an unseen city at night—makes you feel the teemingness of it all.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)