Balkan languages

The Balkan languages are those languages spoken in the Balkans, and possibly forming a part of the Balkan Sprachbund. They include Bulgarian, Macedonian, Romanian, Aromanian, Albanian, Greek, Serbo-Croatian, and a number of others.

The master plan involves generating independent finite-state transducers for each language, and then making individual dictionaries and transfer rules for every pair. The current status of these goals is listed below.

Status

The ultimate goal is to have multi-purposable transducers for a variety of Balkan languages. These can then be paired for X→Y translation with the addition of a CG for language X and transfer rules / dictionary for the pair X→Y. Below is listed development progress for each language's transducers and dictionary pairs.

Transducers

Once a transducer has ~80% coverage on a range of medium-large corpora we can say it is "working". Over 90% and it can be considered to be "production".

name	Language	ISO 639		formalism	state	stems	paradigms	coverage	location	primary authors
		-2	-3
apertium-mkd	Macedonian	mk	mkd	lttoolbox	production	30,686	260	~90.5%	apertium-mkd (languages)	Fran, Tihomir, Petkovski
apertium-hbs	Serbo-Croatian	sh	hbs	lttoolbox	working	58,004	1,092	~90.5%	apertium-hbs (languages)	Fran
apertium-slv	Slovenian	sl	slv	lttoolbox	production	20,596	1,435	~90.5%	apertium-hbs-slv (trunk) apertium-slv-pol (incubator) apertium-sl-mk (incubator)	Fran, Petkovski, Peradin, Horvat, Čabrilo, Dimitrijev
apertium-tur	Turkish	tr	tur	HFST	working	17,221	1	~87.3%	apertium-tur (languages)	Fran, Gianluca, Sezgi Aydın
apertium-bul	Bulgarian	bg	bul	lttoolbox	production	8,578	317	~80%	apertium-bul (languages)	Fran, Tihomir
apertium-sqi	Albanian	sq	sqi	lttoolbox	development	3,312	138	~80.2%	apertium-sqi (languages)	Fran
apertium-ell	Greek	el	ell	lttoolbox	?	2,460	951	-	apertium-ell (languages)	Fran
apertium-rup	Aromanian	-	rup	lttoolbox	?	312,005	26193	-	apertium-rup (incubator)	Fran, shopskasalata
apertium-ron	Romanian	ro	ron	lttoolbox	?	?	?	-	apertium-ron-rup (incubator)	Fran

Balkan Language Classification ^[1]

The languages that share these similarities belong to five distinct branches of the Indo-European languages:

• Albanian: Arvanitika, Gheg, Tosk
• Hellenic languages: Standard Greek, Cappadocian Greek, Pontic Greek
• Romance languages: Aromanian, Romanian, Moldovan, Istro-Romanian, Megleno-Romanian
• Slavic languages
  • Western South Slavic: Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian
  • Eastern South Slavic: Bulgarian, Macedonian
• Indic languages: Romani

Existing language pairs

Balkan-Balkan pairs

Text in italic denotes language pairs under development / in the incubator. Regular text denotes a functioning language pair in staging, while text in bold denotes a stable well-working language pair in trunk.

	bul	mkd	ron	rup	sqi	ell	hbs	slv	tur
bul	-	mk-bg				bg-el
mkd	mk-bg	-			mk-sq		sh-mk	sl-mk
ron			-	ron-rup
rup			ron-rup	-
sqi		mk-sq			-
ell	bg-el					-
hbs		sh-mk					-	hbs-slv
slv		sl-mk					hbs-slv	-
tur									-

Pairs with non-Balkan languages

	bul	mkd	ron	rup	sqi	ell	hbs	slv	tur
el	bg-el
ru	bg-ru						hbs-rus
en	bg-en	mk-en			en-sq	ell-eng	sh-en		tr-en
it			ro-it					sl-it
spa								slv-spa
pol								slv-pol
eo	eo-bg					eo-el
fr			fr-ro
ca			ca-ro
es			es-ro
cs								cs-sl
kir									tur-kir
tat									tur-tat
uzb									tur-uzb
aze									tur-aze
cv									cv-tr

Table of dix progress

	bul	mkd	ron	rup	sqi	ell	hbs	slv	tur		el	ru	en	it	spa	pol	eo	fr	ca	es	cs	kir	tat	uzb	aze	cz
bul	-
mkd		-
ron			-
rup				-
sqi					-
ell						-
hbs							-
slv								-
tur									-
el											-
ru												-
en													-
it														-
spa															-
pol																-
eo																	-
fr																		-
ca																			-
es																				-
cs																					-
kir																						-
tat																							-
uzb																								-
aze																									-
cv																										-

Existing

Monolingual

Language	Module	Paradigms	Lemmata	Coverage (SETimes)	Coverage (Wikipedia)
Bulgarian	Macedonian and Bulgarian	305	7873	88.1%	77.15%
Macedonian	Macedonian and Bulgarian	225	8094	92.1%
Romanian	Spanish and Romanian	997	18719	89.7%	83.62%
Aromanian	Incubator	17	28	-
Albanian	Incubator	127	3302	80.2%	65.62%
Greek	Incubator	377	859	49.4%	49.75%
Serbo-Croatian	Incubator	85	660	-
Slovenian	Incubator	1128	20385	-
Turkish	(external: TRMorph)	-	37101

Languages missing: Roma

Language pairs

• Macedonian and Bulgarian
• Macedonian and English

See also

• North Germanic languages

External links

• TRMorph