CUPERTINO CA: Akal Systems happy and proud to announce on the auspicious day of Guru Nanak Dev Jib’s S25th birthday the availability of “Panjabi Shabad Kosh” which is a Panjabi to English and English to Panjabi dictionary for IBM compatible computer systems running Windows. The Panjabi Shabad Kosh has more than 24000 Panjabi and English words each. Users can look for the meaning of a Panjabi or English word when composing a document simply by clicking on the dictionary icon on the computer screen, without having to grab a dictionary from the bookshelf.
“Over the years several compterized fonts and others products have been developed by many well wishers of Panjabi and Gumukhi alphabet However, there was a lack of Panjabi/English computerized dictionary. Akal Systems has filled that need. This is a welcome move on the part of Akal Systems.” said Tarlochan Singh Nahal, a Technical Writing and Publications consultant based in San Jose The program works on IBM compatible computers running Windows. It requires Anandpur Sahib Font which is a Gurmukhi font developed by Maboli Systems of Virginia (USA). Anandpur Sahib Font works with almost all word processing packages on IBM compatible systems. Efforts are underway to make Panjabi Shabad Kosh compatible with other Gurmukhi fonts and make it available on the Macintosh computers and other Computer Platforms in the future. The product has a user-friendly interface and is very easy to install. It can be invoked anytime while working with other windows packages.
When a Panjabi word is entered, the Panjabi Shabad Kosh provides its meaning in English along with its linguistic characteristics, c.8. Verb, noun, adjective, etc. In addition, Shabad Kosh displays some phrases starting with that word. Similarly if one enters a word in English in the dictionary mode, its meaning in Panjabi is displayed along with its linguistic characteristics. The product allows you to build your own dictionary by allowing you to add or delete a word from the dictionary. This intensive project took three years and a lot of financial resources.
Punjabi is spoken by almost 115 million people in the world. Almost all the Punjabis in the Indian Punjab write Punjabi using Gurmukhi. The Punjabis in Pakistan use Farsi letters to write Punjabi. Akal Systems is based in Cupertino California (USA) and is a major supplier of other Punjabi/Gurmukhi computer programs and tools. It also provides multi-media based Iearning tools called Punjabi Kaida, Punjabi Matra and MiniShabad Kosh for Children to teach them Panjabi alphabet. Vowels, Word Structure, Synonyms, Plurals and building sentences.
For further information, you may contact Akal Systems at (408) 9969404 or write to Akal Systems Address: 20812 Elenda Dr. Cupertino, CA 95014. Aun Surinder Singh.
Article extracted from this publication >> January 13, 1995
