# AutoCompletion for Hindi (Indian Language)
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/autocompletion-for-hindi-indian-language/224247
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 19, 2020, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/autocompletion-for-hindi-indian-language/224247 "2020-03-19T10:12:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@chivas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chivas)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2020, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/autocompletion-for-hindi-indian-language/224247/1 "2020-03-19T10:12:23Z")
Hello,
I am trying to use the Edge Ngram Tokeniser for auto complete search. Below is my index definition:
```
PUT hindi_test
{
"settings": {
"analysis": {
"filter": {
"hindi_stop": {
"type": "stop",
"stopwords": "_hindi_"
},
"hindi_keywords": {
"type": "keyword_marker",
"keywords": ["उदाहरण"]
},
"hindi_stemmer": {
"type": "stemmer",
"language": "hindi"
}
},
"analyzer": {
"hindi": {
"tokenizer": "autocomplete",
"filter": [
"lowercase"
]
},
"autocomplete_search": {
"tokenizer": "lowercase"
}
},
"tokenizer": {
"autocomplete": {
"type": "edge_ngram",
"min_gram": 1,
"max_gram": 10,
"token_chars": [
"letter","digit"
]
}
}
}
},
"mappings": {
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "text",
"analyzer": "hindi",
"search_analyzer": "autocomplete_search"
}
}
}
}
```
However, when I analyse using below:
POST hindi\_test/\_analyze
{
"analyzer": "hindi",
"text": "डीसील्वा"
}
My output is -
> ```
> {
> "tokens" : [
> {
> "token" : "ड",
> "start_offset" : 0,
> "end_offset" : 1,
> "type" : "word",
> "position" : 0
> },
> {
> "token" : "स",
> "start_offset" : 2,
> "end_offset" : 3,
> "type" : "word",
> "position" : 1
> },
> {
> "token" : "ल",
> "start_offset" : 4,
> "end_offset" : 5,
> "type" : "word",
> "position" : 2
> },
> {
> "token" : "व",
> "start_offset" : 6,
> "end_offset" : 7,
> "type" : "word",
> "position" : 3
> }
> ]
> }
>
> ```
What I am assuming is diacritics and conjuncts are being lost during tokenisation. Any pointers if I am missing something in my index definition?
Any help appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/autocompletion-for-hindi-indian-language/224247/2 "2020-03-19T14:45:38Z")
Just a wild guess over here due to not having experience with hindi. Try removing parts of your mapping like stemming/stopwords and see if the problem persists.
Also, if you are using Elasticsearch 7.2 and above, you may want to take a look at the [search-as-you-type datatype](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.6/search-as-you-type.html).
--Alex
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### Author:  [@chivas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chivas)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2020, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/autocompletion-for-hindi-indian-language/224247/3 "2020-03-20T09:54:04Z")
Thanks @spinscale, the search-as-you-type datatype works fine.
Thanks for your help!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2020, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/autocompletion-for-hindi-indian-language/224247/4 "2020-04-17T09:55:18Z")
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