North Germanic languages

The North Germanic languages include Danish (da), Faroese (fo), Icelandic (is), Norwegian (Nynorsk, nn and Bokmål, nb) and Swedish (sv). The languages are related with varying levels of mutual intelligibility. This group would make a nice group for Apertium systems.

Existing pairs

• apertium-sv-da
• apertium-nn-nb

Resources

Resources listed below will be useful in building machine translation systems for these languages.

Monolingual

Language	Resource	Description	See also
Norwegian	Norsk ordbank	Large >100,000 lemma morphological dictionary of both Nynorsk and Bokmål, GPL.	Norsk ordbank
Swedish	Talbanken	A 300,000-word tree-bank: it is in XML, all words are nicely tagged with PAROLE-style tags.
Danish	Danish Dependency Treebank	Danish tree bank, 100,000-word, XML, PAROLE tagged, under the GPL.
Icelandic
Faroese

Bilingual

Funding possibilities

• Nordic Council