Dictionary Based Mobile Phone Application for Punjabi Language

Abstract

Punjabi people constitute second largest Non Resident Indian population in all around the world from India. Punjabi language is mother tongue of more than 110 million people. The new generation of these NRI people does not have understanding of the Punjabi language. The Punjabi people travel most in the world and they face the problem of understanding the universal language English and NRI Punjabi people do not understand Punjabi Language. This thesis is an endeavor to provide the Punjabi translation, transliteration and dictionary applications in the hands of people through mobile phones. With the advancements in mobile computing, the mobile phone can be used for connecting with the already existing web based language interpretation software’s. The client system on mobile phones can be developed in Java Micro Edition that can be connected to the existing web based software. J2ME is a very small Java application environment, which is basically a framework for the deployment and use of Java technology in the post-PC world, dominated by mobile and constrained devices (set top box and personal digital assistant). This thesis is about the mobile phone, different types of the existing Punjabi (Gurmukhi) Language interpretation software’s and the J2ME programming environment. We have implemented an application on mobile phone using the J2ME environment that translates the English (Roman) to Punjabi (Gurmukhi) language.