Malayalam and English/documentation

Malayalam is both agglutinative and inflective language . it belong dravidian language category . In apertium we are trying to implement englaish malayalam pair using hfst .it is described here Starting_a_new_language_with_HFST

Morphotactic using lexc

let's take an example of a noun word , malayalam noun can have 8 inflections , nominative,dative, instrumental, locative ,accusative,vocative and sociative . it can be also classified on the basis on number ,singular and plural , let's declare essential symbols

Multichar_Symbols

%<n%> ! Noun ! നാമം

%<nom%> ! Nominative !

%<acc%> ! Accusative !

%<dat%> ! Dative !

%<soc%> ! Sociative !

%<gen%> ! Genitive !

%<ins%> ! Instrumental !

%<loc%> ! Locative !

%<voc%> ! Vocative !

%<sg%> ! Singular !

%<pl%> ! Plural !

Now we have all essential symbols for a noun , let's add an example paradigm LEXICON Root

Miscellaneous ; Conjunctions ; Postpositions ; Pronouns ; Determiners ; Numerals ; NominalStems ; LEXICON N1

%<n%>%<sg%>%<nom%>:ṁ CLIT-N-NOM ; ! ṁ %<n%>%<sg%>%<loc%>:%>ttil‍ CLIT-N-LOC ; ! ttil %<n%>%<sg%>%<acc%>:%>tte CLIT-N-ACC ; ! tte %<n%>%<sg%>%<gen%>:%>ttinṟe CLIT-N-GEN ; ! ttinṟe %<n%>%<sg%>%<dat%>:%>ttin CLIT-N ; ! ttin %<n%>%<sg%>%<dat%>:%>ttinu CLIT-N ; ! ttinu ! debug !plural %<n%>%<pl%>%<nom%>:%>ṅṅaḷ‍ CLIT-N-NOM ; ! ṅṅaḷ‍ %<n%>%<pl%>%<acc%>:%>ṅṅaḷe CLIT-N-ACC ; ! ṅṅale %<n%>%<pl%>%<gen%>:%>ṅṅaḷuṭe CLIT-N-GEN ; ! ṅṅaḷuṭe

and an example word

LEXICON NominalStems mēghaṁ:mēgha N1 ; ! mēghaṁ ! cloud