@pakhad/locale-in

Indian language locale packs for pakhad. Ships pre-built romanized (Latin-script) Markov models and name lists for 9 Indian languages.

Languages

| Locale | Language | Names | Export | |--------|----------|-------|--------| | in-hi | Hindi | 249 | hi | | in-mr | Marathi | 164 | mr | | in-ta | Tamil | 96 | ta | | in-te | Telugu | 37 | te | | in-kn | Kannada | 31 | kn | | in-ml | Malayalam | 50 | ml | | in-bn | Bengali | 83 | bn | | in-gu | Gujarati | 65 | gu | | in-pa | Punjabi | 62 | pa |

All models use romanized Latin-script names (e.g. "rahul" not "राहुल").

Install

npm install @pakhad/core @pakhad/locale-in

Usually paired with @pakhad/locale-en for combined coverage:

npm install @pakhad/core @pakhad/locale-en @pakhad/locale-in

Usage

All Indian locales (recommended)

import { create } from '@pakhad/core';
import en from '@pakhad/locale-en';
import indiaLocales from '@pakhad/locale-in';

const detector = create({ locales: [en, ...indiaLocales] });

detector.detect('Rahul Sharma', { fieldType: 'name' });
// { label: "clean", score: 0.086 }

detector.detect('xkqzvb wwwxxx', { fieldType: 'name' });
// { label: "gibberish", score: 0.777 }

Individual locales

import { hi, mr, ta } from '@pakhad/locale-in';

// Only Hindi and Marathi
const detector = create({ locales: [en, hi, mr] });

Force a specific locale

detector.detect('rahul sharma', { locale: 'in-hi' });
detector.detect('sachin patil', { locale: 'in-mr' });
detector.detect('rajesh kumar', { locale: ['in-hi', 'in-ta'] });

Available Exports

// Default export: array of all 9 locales
import indiaLocales from '@pakhad/locale-in';

// Named exports: individual locales
import { hi, mr, ta, te, kn, ml, bn, gu, pa } from '@pakhad/locale-in';

Expanding the Corpus

The shipped name lists are curated starter sets. For production with larger corpora, use @pakhad/train:

npx pakhad-train markov --input your-hindi-names.txt --order 3 --output in-hi-markov.bin
npx pakhad-train namelist --input your-hindi-names.txt --fpr 0.001 --output in-hi-names.bloom

Full Documentation

github.com/nikhilchintawar/pakhad

License

MIT