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Francis Tyers: /* See also */

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Francis Tyers: /* Paradigms */

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Paradigms

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Francis Tyers: /* Notes */

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Francis Tyers: /* The language */

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The language

Francis Tyers at 15:03, 21 December 2011

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Francis Tyers: /* Organising paradigms */

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 | Nominative       || wrón'''a'''   || wrón'''je'''   || wrón'''y'''
 |-
-| Genitive         || wrón'''u'''   || <span style="background-color:#ccffcc">wrón'''ow'''</span>   || <span style="background-color:#ccffcc">wróna'''ow'''</span>
+| Genitive         || wrón'''u'''   || <span style="background-color:#ccffcc">wrón'''ow'''</span>   || <span style="background-color:#ccffcc">wrón'''ow'''</span>
 |-
-| Dative           || wrón'''je'''  || <span style="background-color:#ccffcc">wrón'''omaj'''</span> || <span style="background-color:#ccffcc">wróna'''am'''</span>
+| Dative           || wrón'''je'''  || <span style="background-color:#ccffcc">wrón'''omaj'''</span> || <span style="background-color:#ccffcc">wrón'''am'''</span>
 |-
 | Accusative       || wrón'''u'''   || wrón'''je'''   || wrón'''y'''
 |-
-| Instrumental     || wrón'''u'''   || <span style="background-color:#ccffcc">wrón'''omaj'''</span> || <span style="background-color:#ccffcc">wróna'''ami'''</span>
+| Instrumental     || wrón'''u'''   || <span style="background-color:#ccffcc">wrón'''omaj'''</span> || <span style="background-color:#ccffcc">wrón'''ami'''</span>
 |-
-| Locative         || wrón'''je'''  || <span style="background-color:#ccffcc">wrón'''omaj'''</span> || <span style="background-color:#ccffcc">wróna'''ach'''</span>
+| Locative         || wrón'''je'''  || <span style="background-color:#ccffcc">wrón'''omaj'''</span> || <span style="background-color:#ccffcc">wrón'''ach'''</span>
 |-
 | Vocative         || wrón'''a'''!  || wrón'''je'''!  || wrón'''u'''!

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 Now try and add the other two words to the dictionary, along with their inflectional paradigms. A solution can be found on the [[Talk:Starting a new language with lttoolbox|talk page]].
+You can also try adding the alternative forms (for example ''hrěchu'' as a possible genitive singular of ''hrěch'').
 ==Notes==

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 ==The language==
-The language we will be modelling is Upper Sorbian, a Slavic language spoken in Germany. There is a limited grammar available in English [http://serbscina.w.interia.pl/iso/eindex.htm here] and that is what we will be basing our analysis on. The part of speech we're going to look at for this small tutorial is nouns. Nouns in Upper Sorbian have seven cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, locative, instrumental, vocative), three numbers (singular, dual, plural) and three genders (masculine, feminine, neuter). Like other Slavic languages, the category of animacy is distinguished in the masculine.
+The language we will be modelling is Upper Sorbian, a Slavic language spoken in Germany. There is a limited grammar available in English [http://serbscina.w.interia.pl/iso/eindex.htm here] and that is what we will be basing our analysis on. The part of speech we're going to look at for this small tutorial is nouns. Nouns in Upper Sorbian have seven cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, locative, instrumental, vocative), three numbers (singular, dual, plural) and three genders (masculine, feminine, neuter). Like other Slavic languages, the category of animacy is distinguished in the masculine.<ref>This description is simplistic, the reality is more complicated, but it will do for a tutorial.</ref>
 ===Paradigms===

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 :''For information on how to install lttoolbox, see [[lttoolbox]] and [[minimal installation from SVN]]''
-This page is going to describe how to start a new language with [[lttoolbox]]. As lttoolbox is not really suited to agglutinative languages, or languages with complex and regular morphophonology (or at least no-one has written a dictionary from scratch using lttoolbox for one of these languages yet), we're going to work on one with simpler and less regular morphology.
+This page is going to describe how to start a new language with [[lttoolbox]]. As lttoolbox is not really suited to agglutinative languages, or languages with complex and regular morphophonology (or at least no-one has written a dictionary from scratch using lttoolbox for one of these languages yet), we're going to work on one with simpler and less regular morphology. We particularly encourage people to use lttoolbox wherever possible, it has a straightforward syntax, some very useful features for validation, and is a canonical part of Apertium, not requiring any special software to be installed.
 ==Preliminaries==

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 So, now we've got everything in place for building the dictionary. Now on to our next word...
-===Organising paradigms===
+==Organising paradigms==
 The obvious thing to do when adding the word ''hrěch'' "sin" would be to duplicate the <code>nan__n_ma</code> paradigm, change the gender and then the surface forms which are different. Then we would end up with a new paradigm something like,
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 Factoring out common suffixes makes paradigms more maintainable, but also more complicated to understand. The features of the language, the depth of the description and the intuitions of the person writing the dictionary will dictate to what extent parts can be factored out.
+Now try and add the other two words to the dictionary, along with their inflectional paradigms. A solution can be found on the [[Talk:Starting a new language with lttoolbox|talk page]].
 ==Notes==