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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 |
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 |
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%<pl%> ! Plural ! |
%<pl%> ! Plural ! |
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Now we have all essential symbols for a noun , let's add an example paradigm |
Now we have all essential symbols for a noun , let's add an example paradigm |
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%<n%>%<pl%>%<gen%>:%>ṅṅaḷuṭe CLIT-N-GEN ; ! ṅṅaḷuṭe |
%<n%>%<pl%>%<gen%>:%>ṅṅaḷuṭe CLIT-N-GEN ; ! ṅṅaḷuṭe |
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and an example word |
and an example word |
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mēghaṁ:mēgha N1 ; ! mēghaṁ ! cloud |
mēghaṁ:mēgha N1 ; ! mēghaṁ ! cloud |
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Revision as of 11:18, 1 August 2014
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
