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  2. Footsteps (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Footsteps (Indonesian: Jejak Langkah) is the third novel in the Buru Quartet tetralogy by the Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer. The tetralogy fictionalizes the life of Tirto Adhi Soerjo , an Indonesian nobleman and pioneering journalist.

  3. Persian phonology - Wikipedia

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    In Dari and Tajik /a/ is the most common vowel and at the end of a word may be pronounced as /æ/. [a] Unlike Iranian Persian, Dari has 5 long vowels /ɑː/, /eː/, /iː/, /oː/, and /uː/. The Dari vowel /ɑː/ and the Iranian vowel /ɒː/ are, respectively, the unrounded and rounded versions of the same vowel. ('roundedness' refers to the ...

  4. Dari - Wikipedia

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    The majority of scholars believe that Dari refers to the Persian word dar or darbār , meaning "court", as it was the formal language of the Sassanids. [6] The original meaning of the word dari is given in a notice attributed to Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (cited by Ibn al-Nadim in Al-Fehrest). [26]

  5. Romanization of Persian - Wikipedia

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    Romanization or Latinization of Persian (Persian: لاتین‌نِویسی فارسی, romanized: Lâtin-Nēvisiyē Fârsi, pronounced [lɒːtiːn.neviːˌsije fɒːɾˈsiː]) is the representation of the Persian language (Iranian Persian, Dari and Tajik) with the Latin script. Several different romanization schemes exist, each with its own ...

  6. Indonesian literature - Wikipedia

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    Indonesian literature is a term grouping various genres of South-East Asian literature.. Indonesian literature can refer to literature produced in the Indonesian archipelago.

  7. Hazaragi dialect - Wikipedia

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    It is an eastern variety of Persian and closely related to Dari, one of the two official Languages of Afghanistan. The primary differences between Dari and Hazaragi are the accents [7] and Hazaragi's greater array of many Turkic and Mongolic words and loanwords [8] [9] [10] [5] Despite these differences, the two dialects are mutually ...

  8. Optical character recognition - Wikipedia

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    Video of the process of scanning and real-time optical character recognition (OCR) with a portable scanner. Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and ...

  9. Pencak silat - Wikipedia

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    Pencak silat has several basic steps, known as langkah 8 penjuru or "eight directions of steps". Traditional music is often used as a signal to change body position when practicing langkah. [33] Langkah are taught in conjunction with preset stances, meant to provide a foundation from which to defend oneself or to launch attacks.