Dear Ole,

Thank you for your positive feedback! First of all its quite sad to hear that the CPD is "officially" going to be discontinued but then - progress was very slow during the recent years, wasn't it? At least i did not hear much about it. Secondly: it would be a great honor for me if i could lend you a hand and make any helpful contribution. We can discuss any details about extraction of words from the Patimokkha if you like (please reply to palireader [at] gmail [dot] com for off - newsgroup discussion) . I think it wont be such a difficult task because - due to the development of the Pali Text Reader - we already developed some pali specialized corpus handling tools (i.e. our pali-alphabetical sorting algorithm etc.)

Some questions for a starter:

1.) which editions you are going to use (it might be necessary to make an automated diff-list to see, which words differ in those editions of the Patimokkha) - VRI, Thai and Sinhalese editions are all electronically available, so they could be used

2.) Extraction of unique terms is no problem. I could also generate a reverse sorted list, so its easier to edit them according to "grammatical class"

Finally, i have a question regarding the licensing of the CPD. Is it or will it be "open source". I am asking, because till now, we use the Buddhadatta's dictionary for instance in the Pali Text Reader because the PED is still "closed for redistribution" due to copyright issues. Does the same apply to the CPD? Or wont it be a problem to use the CPD later on in open source applications?

mettâya,

Lennart

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Betreff: SV: [Pali] frequency sorted Pali word list

Many thanks Lennart. I am planning to continue the Critical Pali Dictionary,
Copenhagen 1924-, which, unfortunately, is to be discontinued. At the
moment I am involved in making the CPD available on the server of the
University of Copenhagen and turning the project into a netbased dictionary.
This will take some time, but it should be available in the near future. My
plan is continue the CPD covering the complete vocabulary of one canonical
text at the time. In this way one gets around the problem of not covering
the complete vocabulary of the canon before the last volume has been
published in the remote future. My first choise is the vocabulary of the
Patimokkha. Would it be possible for you to extract the total vocabulary of
this important text ? That would be an important contribution to Pali
lexicography. It could be published as an overview of the vocabulary, and
serve as an introduction to the subsequent lexicographical treatment.

Ole Pind

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Emne: [Pali] frequency sorted Pali word list

Dear friends in Dhamma,

Just uploaded a zip file containing a comprehensive Pali word list
sorted by frequency. Anyone interested, feel free to download and use
for whatever purpose:

http://www.nibbanam
<http://www.nibbanam .com/pali_ language_ tools.html# freqList>
.com/pali_language_ tools.html# freqList

mettâya,

Lennart

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