English loanword preferences and review — 2026-09-27
Historical pilot record. The 2026-09-28 expansion adds 30 more keys. The later 2026-10-01 suffix update adds the 51st stem, finite attached forms and the school alternative. Counts and pending statuses below describe the original pilot at its publication date.
The package automatically converts the 20 English spellings below to their listed Nepali loanword forms. Live input uses them while Nepali mode is enabled; convertWord and convertText also use them. The user authorized these source-assisted project preferences for implementation. They are not independently human-reviewed corpus labels or a claim of universally correct spelling.
The research catalogue contained 34 keys. Only pilot order 1–20 was shipped as new built-in loanword entries at this stage; the remaining 14 keys were pending or deferred. Selection provides useful coverage and directly opened evidence, not a measured word-frequency ranking. The source ledger records all 34 entries, Unicode code points, exact spelling evidence, variant evidence, source URLs, access dates and scopes.
Accepted project defaults
Each new loanword has exactly one candidate: its preferred output. The observed variants in the final column are pending review, so the built-in engine does not offer them in the alternatives dropdown. A dash means that no variant was recorded in this research; it does not assert that none exists.
| Pilot order | English key | Preferred output | Preferred-spelling evidence | Observed variants, pending |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | camera | क्यामेरा | S01, S02 | क्यामरा (S08) |
| 2 | computer | कम्प्युटर | S01, S02 | कम्प्यूटर (S02) |
| 3 | mobile | मोबाइल | S01, S03 | मोबाईल (S03) |
| 4 | phone | फोन | S01, S02 | — |
| 5 | charger | चार्जर | S03 | — |
| 6 | printer | प्रिन्टर | S02, S01 | — |
| 7 | mouse | माउस | S02 | — |
| 8 | internet | इन्टरनेट | S01, S04 | — |
| 9 | email | इमेल | S02, S04, S28 | ई-मेल (S09) |
| 10 | software | सफ्टवेयर | S01, S04 | — |
| 11 | scanner | स्क्यानर | S02 | — |
| 12 | video | भिडियो | S01, S04, S28 | — |
| 13 | taxi | ट्याक्सी | S10 | — |
| 14 | bank | बैंक | S13 | बैङ्क (S14) |
| 15 | cheque | चेक | S13 | — |
| 16 | file | फाइल | S15 | — |
| 17 | school | स्कुल | S01 | स्कूल (S21) |
| 18 | college | कलेज | S01, S21 | — |
| 19 | doctor | डाक्टर | S22 | — |
| 20 | nurse | नर्स | S22 | — |
Source occurrences support spelling usage within their stated context. For example, mouse uses a computer-device reading, charger uses device charging and cheque uses the banking noun. This feature spells borrowed words; it does not translate school to विद्यालय, doctor to चिकित्सक or mouse to an animal name. NSO evidence for video is within a compound; the independently opened CEHRD page supplies educational usage of भिडियो. The source ledger keeps these scopes and provisional corroboration separate.
Matching, choices and developer control
- Matching uses the existing normalized whole-word dictionary.
CameraandComputermatch their lowercase keys. ReservedT,D,S,Rand vowel-followingHremain sound instructions:Doctor,School,CAMERAandCOMPUTERare not blanket-lowercased English aliases. - Unlisted keys keep the existing phonetic fallback. Attached forms such as
camerako,cameramaa,mobilemaandschoolmaare not added or inferred by this pilot.filedoes not authorizephailorfail, andchequedoes not authorizecheck. - A developer can replace a key’s entire ordered candidate list with
createEngine({ entries }), then pass that engine’sconvertWordandconvertTextfunctions to a browser adapter. The API reference shows the existing interface. - An alternate requires separate acceptance as a suitable project spelling. Observing it on a source page or obtaining it from the fallback does not make it a built-in candidate.
- The companion
chapreference now returnsचfirst andछsecond.chhareturns onlyछ; use it for the unambiguous छ reading. This changes candidate order without changingch→ च् andchh→ छ् when typed without a vowel.
Explicit ^, ~, /, = and contextual H retain their existing behavior. The lexical output does not change fallback consonants, short/long vowel rules or final half consonants. A complete key can supply its own Unicode spelling, as other starter entries do. See the typing reference for those rules.
Literal English and mixed text
Leave an entire English field unattached, exclude it with data-sahajlipi-ignore, or disable conversion with the existing controller/manager setEnabled(false). Supported all-fields setup still excludes password, email, number and URL input types. Disabling conversion affects subsequent typing and paste without rewriting existing text.
The later shared mixed-text policy preserves recognizable links, ASCII domain-shaped hosts, and ordinary ASCII email addresses in text conversion and attached fields. camera.com now stays literal by default. This is separate from the 20-word loanword pilot and does not change its dated evidence or word-level mappings. Arbitrary English, code, and filenames are not detected; camera_file and camera123 can still convert. Switch conversion off while typing or pasting a literal fragment, then resume it. Hyphenated input such as e-mail is split by convertText and is not an alias for email. Attached-form review remains separate work.
Unshipped research queue
None of these 14 research proposals was added as a new loanword entry by this pilot; the later expansion added 12 of them. Their proposed spellings and variants remain review material. train is deferred because choosing the borrowed ट्रेन versus the semantic equivalent रेल requires a lexical decision.
| English key | Proposed output | Status | Proposal evidence | Observed variants, pending |
|---|---|---|---|---|
bus | बस | Pending project review | S11 | — |
cricket | क्रिकेट | Pending project review | S23 | — |
football | फुटबल | Pending project review | S23 | फूटबल (S24) |
hotel | होटल | Pending project review | S20, S18 | होटेल (S18, S19) |
keyboard | किबोर्ड | Pending project review | S02 | कि-बोर्ड (S02); कि बोर्ड (S02) |
laptop | ल्यापटप | Pending project review | S04, S03 | — |
microphone | माइक्रोफोन | Pending project review | S02, S04 | — |
office | अफिस | Pending project review | S16, S17 | — |
password | पासवर्ड | Pending project review | S04 | — |
restaurant | रेस्टुरेन्ट | Pending project review | S18, S19 | रेष्टुरेन्ट (S20) |
speaker | स्पिकर | Pending project review | S02 | स्पीकर (S05) |
ticket | टिकट | Pending project review | S12, S11, S26 | — |
train | ट्रेन | Deferred: lexical choice | S25 | — |
wifi | वाइफाइ | Pending project review | S04 | वाइफाई (S27) |
Verification and review boundaries
The benchmark guide records the reproducible pilot regression comparison. Its accepted outputs check the authorized behavior, including the cha order, rather than population typing accuracy. Original seed-case IDs, older dated reports, external datasets and unreviewed development labels retain their provenance and recorded denominators. No independent human review is admitted by this spelling update.
The relevant implementation is the starter lexicon. The package keeps its current public API and offline dictionary. For integration details, use the API reference; demo controls and hosting are documented in the separate demo guide.
Source ledger
All sources below were accessed for the supplied research on 2026-09-27. They establish attested usage within the stated access scope. None is an exhaustive dictionary, exclusive spelling standard, independent review of this project, or word-frequency ranking. Snippet-only observations remain provisional; a fetched PDF does not establish Unicode spelling when the target string was observed only in its search-indexed excerpt. Official foreign Nepali translations are corroboration, with their jurisdiction recorded.
S01
Access scope: full_page_unicode_html. Access date: 2026-09-27. The counts beside category labels are survey-file counts, not word-frequency measurements; they must not be used to rank everyday loanword usage.
S02
Access scope: full_page_unicode_html. Access date: 2026-09-27. Institutional classroom usage rather than a normative spelling dictionary. The page itself uses multiple keyboard variants.
S03
Nepal Police — लुटपाटमा संलग्न रहेको अभियोगमा चार जना पक्राउ
Access scope: full_page_unicode_html. Access date: 2026-09-27. The same article uses both मोबाइल and मोबाईल; this is evidence of variation, not proof that both are equally preferred.
S04
Australian Government, Act Now. Stay Secure. — नेपाली / Nepali | Act Now. Stay Secure.
Access scope: full_page_unicode_html. Access date: 2026-09-27. Official Nepali-language usage from a foreign government; corroboration only for Nepal-specific lexical decisions, not a Nepal normative source.
S05
Access scope: search_result_snippet_only. Access date: 2026-09-27. Use only as provisional corroboration, not as independently opened full-page evidence.
S06
Access scope: search_result_snippet_only. Access date: 2026-09-27. Provisional Nepal-specific corroboration for wifi, password, laptop and other internet terms.
S07
Electricity Regulatory Commission, Nepal — खरिद सम्बन्धि सूचना / Procurement Notice
Access scope: search_result_snippet_only. Access date: 2026-09-27. Provisional corroboration only.
S08
Access scope: search_result_snippet_only. Access date: 2026-09-27. Attests an alternative spelling; no frequency or normative conclusion.
S09
Access scope: search_result_snippet_only. Access date: 2026-09-27. Variant corroboration only.
S10
Access scope: full_page_title. Access date: 2026-09-27. Usage evidence, not a normative spelling decision.
S11
Transport Management Office Siraha — सवारी तथा यातायात व्यवस्था नियमावली excerpt (descriptive title)
Access scope: search_snippet. Access date: 2026-09-27. Official indexed PDF, not fetched.
S12
Transport Management Office Baglung, Gandaki Province — निर्देशिका र कार्यविधि
Access scope: search_snippet. Access date: 2026-09-27. Full page fetch timed out.
S13
Nepal Rastra Bank — वितिय ग्राहक संरक्षण Archives
Access scope: full_page_text. Access date: 2026-09-27. Actual financial cheque noun usage.
S14
Ministry of Finance Nepal — भूमिका/कार्य/जिम्मेवारी
Access scope: search_snippet. Access date: 2026-09-27. Full fetch timed out.
S15
Film Development Board Nepal — सूचनाको हक विवरण, २०८२ माघ–चैत्र (descriptive title)
Access scope: full_page_text. Access date: 2026-09-27. Usage evidence, not a normative spelling decision.
S16
Access scope: search_snippet. Access date: 2026-09-27. Not fetched full page.
S17
Office of the Nepal Trust — स्वागतम् | नेपाल ट्रष्टको कार्यालय
Access scope: search_snippet. Access date: 2026-09-27. Official gallery label; full fetch timed out.
S18
Access scope: search_snippet_for_devanagari. Access date: 2026-09-27. Full 150-page PDF fetched; cover confirms NSO, December 2024. Extracted text did not locate these Devanagari strings, so exact spelling evidence remains indexed snippet.
S19
Access scope: search_snippet_title. Access date: 2026-09-27. Full fetch failed.
S20
Kathmandu Metropolitan City Metro News — रेष्टुरेन्ट र मिठाई पसलको भान्छामा सरसफाईको समस्या
Access scope: full_page_text. Access date: 2026-09-27. Usage evidence, not a normative spelling decision.
S21
Access scope: search_snippet. Access date: 2026-09-27. Not fetched full PDF.
S22
Department of Health Services Government of Nepal — दायरा
Access scope: full_page_text. Access date: 2026-09-27. Usage evidence, not a normative spelling decision.
S23
Nepal Police — खेलकुद क्षेत्रमा विशिष्ट योगदान दिँदै नेपाल प्रहरी
Access scope: full_page_text. Access date: 2026-09-27. Usage evidence, not a normative spelling decision.
S24
Access scope: search_snippet. Access date: 2026-09-27. Not fetched full page.
S25
Nepal Insurance Authority — सम्पत्ति बीमा निर्देशन, २०८०
Access scope: search_snippet. Access date: 2026-09-27. Exact bilingual gloss; full fetch failed.
S26
House of Representatives Federal Parliament Nepal — Railway bill text (descriptive title)
Access scope: search_snippet. Access date: 2026-09-27. Official passenger-transport use of रेल; not fetched full PDF.
S27
Access scope: snippet_only. Access date: 2026-09-27. Usage evidence, not a normative spelling decision.
S28
Access scope: full_page_unicode_html. Access date: 2026-09-27. Official educational usage; does not establish a unique normative spelling.
S29
Access scope: full_article_and_pdf. Access date: 2026-09-27. A study of oral business Nepali, not a population word-frequency ranking or normative dictionary.
Only source metadata and short observation descriptions are included. Raw corpora, bulk source text and source-page excerpts are not redistributed. The lexical borrowing study motivates investigation of oral business Nepali; its sample does not rank these pilot words.