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The Uralic languages (urj) constitute a language family of some three dozen related languages descended from a Proto-Uralic language and spoken by more than 25 million people throughout Europe and Northern Asia. Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian are the Uralic languages with the most native speakers.

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 Uralic 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 native name ISO 639 formalism state stems paradigms coverage location primary authors
-2 -3
apertium-ara Arabic العربية ar ara ? ? ? ? ? ?
apertium-heb Hebrew עִבְרִית he heb ? ? ? ? ? ?
apertium-mlt Maltese Malti mt mlt ? ? ? ? ? ?

Semetic languages by subgroup

There are six fairly uncontroversial nodes within the Semitic languages:

  • East Semitic languages: Akkadian, Eblaite (extinct)
  • Central Semitic languages
  • South Semitic languages
    • Western: Ethiopic languages (Amharic, Tigrinya, etc.) and Old South Arabian languages (Sabaean, Minaean, Qatabānian, Ḥaḑramitic, etc.)
    • Eastern: Modern South Arabian languages (Bathari, Harsusi, Hobyót, Mehri, Shehri, Soqotri)

Existing language 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.

mlt heb ara
mlt - mt-he
3,634
mt-ar
7,570
heb mt-he
3,634
- ara-heb
131
ara mt-ar
7,570
ara-heb
131
-
eng en-mt
814
epo eo-he
1,505
mlt heb ara
mlt - mt-he
mt-ar
heb mt-he
- ara-heb
ara mt-ar
ara-heb
-
eng en-mt
epo eo-he


Samples

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Language Text
Maltese Il-bnedmin kollha jitwieldu ħielsa u ugwali fid-dinjità u d-drittijiet. Huma mogħnija bir-raġuni u bil-kuxjenza u għandhom iġibu ruħhom ma’ xulxin bi spirtu ta’ aħwa.
Hebrew כל בני אדם נולדו בני חורין ושווים בערכם ובזכויותיהם. כולם חוננו בתבונה ובמצפון, לפיכך חובה עליהם לנהוג איש ברעהו ברוח של אחוה.
Arabic يولد جميع الناس أحرارًا متساوين في الكرامة والحقوق. وقد وهبوا عقلاً وضميرًا وعليهم أن يعامل بعضهم بعضًا بروح الإخاء.

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "Semetic languages", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Vulnerability

This table summarizes the vulnerability of various Semetic languages. Data is derived from the ‘Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, © UNESCO, http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas’.

Language ISO639-3 Areas Vulnerability
Ge'ez gez Ethiopia 5 - Extinct
Mlahso (Syria) lhs Syrian Arab Republic 5 - Extinct
Lishanid Noshan (Iraq) aij Iraq 5 - Extinct
Lishana Deni (Iraq) lsd Iraq 5 - Extinct
Lishan Didan (Iran) trg Iran (Islamic Republic of) 5 - Extinct
Hulaula (Iran) huy Iran (Islamic Republic of) 5 - Extinct
Barzani Jewish Neo-Aramaic (Iraq) bjf Iraq 5 - Extinct
Bathari bhm Oman 4 - Critically endangered
Argobba agj Ethiopia 4 - Critically endangered
Mandaic mid Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq 4 - Critically endangered
Senaya syn Iran (Islamic Republic of) 4 - Critically endangered
Hértevin hrt Turkey 4 - Critically endangered
Soqotri sqt Yemen 3 - Severely endangered
Jibbali shv Oman 3 - Severely endangered
Hobyot hoh Oman, Yemen 3 - Severely endangered
Zay zwa Ethiopia 3 - Severely endangered
Tunisian Judeo-Arabic (Israel) ajt Israel 3 - Severely endangered
Cypriot Arabic acy Cyprus 3 - Severely endangered
Turoyo tru Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey 3 - Severely endangered
Bohtan Neo-Aramaic bhn Georgia, Russian Federation 3 - Severely endangered
Mehri gdq Oman, Yemen 2 - Definitely endangered
Harsusi hss Oman 2 - Definitely endangered
Moroccan Judeo-Arabic (Israel) aju Israel 2 - Definitely endangered
Western Neo-Aramaic amw Syrian Arab Republic 2 - Definitely endangered