Turkic languages

The Turkic languages include Turkish, Azeri, Uzbek, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Chuvash, Turkmen, Bashkir, and several dozen other languages. The languages are related with varying levels of mutual intelligibility. Our goal is to enhance MT coverage of them with apertium.

Status

Transducers

name	Language	ISO	formalism	state	coverage	location	primary authors
trmorph	Turkish	tr	SFST	working	~88%		Çağri
"kymorph"	Kyrgyz	ky	HFST (lexc+twol)	working	~87%	trunk/apertium-tr-ky	Jonathan, Mirlan, Fran
turmorph	Turkish	tr	HFST (lexc+twol)	development	~65%		Gianluca
	Kazakh	kk	HFST (lexc+twol)	development	~57%	incubator/apertium-ky-kk	Nathan, Jonathan, Fran
	Chuvash	cv	HFST (lexc+twol)	development	~30%	incubator/apertium-cv-ru	Hèctor
	Tatar	tt			-
azmorph	Azeri	az	SFST	working?	-	trunk/apertium-tr-az	Gianluca

Turkic-Turkic pairs

Text in italic denotes language pairs under development.

	tr	az	tk	uz	ky	kk	tt	cv	ba	ug
tr	—	tr-az			tr-ky			tr-cv
az	az-tr	—
tk			—
uz				—
ky	ky-tr				—		ky-kk
kk						—	kk-tt
tt						tt-kk	—
cv	cv-tr							—
ba									—
ug										—

Pairs with non-Turkic languages

	tr	az	tk	uz	ky	kk	tt	cv	ba	ug
en	tr-en				ky-en
fr
es
it
ru								cv-ru
mn						mn-kk

Tagset

Rough guide to tagsets in various Turkic language transducers, with an eye to keeping stuff that is basically the same tagged the same.

Phenomenon	Morphology	Description	Tag(s)	Language(s)	Notes
Case
Ablative case	-DAn	Case indicating movement away	<abl>	Pan-turkic