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Letter Frequency Analysis of Lithuanian and Other Languages Using the Latin Alphabet
Letter Frequency Analysis of Lithuanian and Other Languages Using the Latin Alphabet

Author(s): Gintautas Grigas, Anita Juškevičienė
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Descriptive linguistics
Published by: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Keywords: alphabet; diacritic; keyboard; Latin script; letter; letter frequency; Lithuanian language; mobile phone; text input.

Summary/Abstract: It is important to evaluate specificities of alphabets, particularly the letter frequencies while designing keyboards, analyzing texts, designing games based on alphabets, and doing some text mining. In order to adequately compare lettter frequences of Lithuanian language to other languages in the Internet space, Wikipedia source was selected which content is common to different languages. The method of letter frequency jumps is used. The main attention is paid to the analysis of letter frequencies at the boundary between native letters and foreign letters used in Lithuanian and other languages.

  • Issue Year: 23/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 81-91
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English