Catalan

Catalan (Wikipedia:Catalan language) is a Romance language. It is available in Apertium as a standalone analyser/generator (apertium-cat) and as a component of several pairs which translate to/from Catalan.

Language pairs

See also: List of language pairs

In trunk:

Pair name	Languages	Last update
apertium-arg-cat	Aragonese <-> Catalan	17 Aug 2016
apertium-ca-it	Catalan <-> Italian	12 Oct 2014
apertium-en-ca	English <-> Catalan	28 Mar 2016
apertium-eo-ca	Esperanto <-- Catalan	13 Dec 2015
apertium-fra-cat	French <-> Catalan	18 Apr 2017
apertium-oc-ca	Occitan <-> Catalan	13 Dec 2015
apertium-pt-ca	Portuguese <-> Catalan	13 Dec 2015
apertium-spa-cat	Spanish <-> Catalan	01 Apr 2017

In staging:

Pair name	Languages	Last update
apertium-cat-glg	Catalan <-> Galician	18 Nov 2016
apertium-cat-srd	Catalan <-> Sardinian	03 Apr 2017

In nursery:

Pair name	Languages	Last update
apertium-ca-ro	Catalan <-> Romanian	30 Sep 2015

In incubator:

Pair name	Languages	Last update
apertium-cat-cos	Catalan <-> Corsican	05 Nov 2013
apertium-cat-ina	Catalan <-> Interlingua	07 Jan 2016
apertium-eng-cat	English <-> Catalan	24 Jan 2016
apertium-por-cat	Portuguese <-> Catalan	22 Jan 2016

Apertium-cat

Current status

Last update: 28 Aug 2017

Dix entries: 56,588

Dix paradigms: 607

Coverage: 94.04% (Wikipedia)

Dictionary guidelines

The current Catalan dictionary is quite big (more than 55,000 entries), so tidiness is essential to ensure future development:

• Keep entries sorted alphabetically.
• Keep entries grouped by type and tags (do not mix different types of proper nouns together).
• Check the file with apertium-dixtools (to update the number of entries and remove duplicates).

Proper nouns

Catalan proper nouns (names, toponyms, acronyms, etc.) should all have gender and number. They were once removed, but they should be specified using the following paradigms:

• Toponyms <np><top><m><sg>: Iran__np
• Toponyms <np><top><f><sg>: Àfrica__np
• Toponyms <np><top><m><pl>: Estats_Units__np
• Toponyms <np><top><f><pl>: Balears__np

• Antroponyms <np><ant><m><sg>: Marc__np
• Antroponyms <np><ant><f><sg>: Maria__np
• Family names <np><cog><mf><sp>: Saussure__np

• Others <np><al><m><sg>: Linux__np
• Others <np><al><f><sg>: Wikipedia__np
• Others <np><al><m><pl>: Jocs_Olímpics__np
• Others <np><al><f><pl>: Falles__np
• Others <np><al><mf><sp>: Honda__np

Future work

• Add support for proper noun articles (en/na).
• Restore gender and number to proper nouns that still do not have them.
• Tweak entries related to proper nouns with translations (kings, queens, etc.).
  • This is already partially done using lexical selection and a specific macro in several language pairs

For further documentation about Catalan in Apertium, check: Category:Catalan