Uralic languages

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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-fin Finnish Suomen kieli fi fin lttoolbox production 408,216 1,526 apertium-fin (languages) Trond, mie
apertium-myv Erzya eŕźań keĺ myv HFST (lexc+twol) development apertium-myv-fin (incubator) Fran, Jack Rueter
apertium-mrj Hill Mari Мары йӹлмӹ mrj HFST (lexc+twol) development apertium-mrj-fin (incubator) Fran, kuprina, jackrueter
apertium-olo Livvi-Karelian Livvi olo HFST (lexc+twol) development apertium-olo-fin (incubator) Fran, rantakau, jackrueter
apertium-fkv Kven Kainun kieli fkv HFST (lexc+twol) prototype apertium-fkv-fin (incubator) Fran, nikerabbit
apertium-sme Northern Sami davvisámegiella sm sme HFST (lexc+twol) prototype apertium-eus-sme (incubator) Linda
apertium-udm Udmurt удмурт кыл udm HFST (lexc+twol) prototype apertium-udm-rus (nursery) Fran, Trond, Andrey, Лукерья, Алексей
apertium-hun Hungarian magyar hu hun lttoolbox prototype 138 50 apertium-hun (incubator) mie
apertium-kpv Komi-Zyrian Коми кыв kpv HFST (lexc+twol) prototype apertium-kpv-mhr (incubator) Fran, Trond, Fedina, Andrei Chemyshev
apertium-mhr Meadow Mari Олык Марий mhr HFST (lexc+twol) prototype apertium-kpv-mhr (incubator) Fran, Fedina, Andrei Chemyshev
apertium-est Estonian eesti keel et est HFST (lexc+twol) prototype apertium-fin-est (incubator) Fran
apertium-smj Lule Sami julevsámegiella smj lttoolbox prototype apertium-sme-smj (incubator) Fran, Linda
apertium-liv Livonian līvõ kēļ liv HFST (lexc+twol) ? apertium-liv-fin (incubator) Fran, rblumber, jackrueter
apertium-sma Southern Sami Åarjelsaemien gïele sma lttoolbox ? apertium-sme-sma (nursery) Fran, Trond, rtxanson, leneant, makappfj

Uralic languages by subgroup

All Uralic languages are thought to have descended, through independent processes of language change, from Proto-Uralic. The traditional classification is as follows:

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.

hun fin fkv liv olo mrj myv udm kpv sme sma mhr est smj
hun - fin-hun
fin fin-hun
- fkv-fin
liv-fin
olo-fin
mrj-fin
myv-fin
fin-udm
kpv-fin
sme-fin
fin-est
fkv fkv-fin
-
liv liv-fin
-
olo olo-fin
-
mrj mrj-fin
-
myv myv-fin
-
udm fin-udm
-
kpv kpv-fin
- kpv-mhr
sme sme-fin
- sme-sma
sme-smj
sma sme-sma
-
mhr kpv-mhr
-
est fin-est
-
smj sme-smj
-
deu sme-deu
eng hun-eng
fin-eng
epo eo-hu
eo-fi
eus eu-hu
eus-sme
nob sme-nob
rus udm-rus
spa sme-spa

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
Finnish Kaikki ihmiset syntyvät vapaina ja tasavertaisina arvoltaan ja oikeuksiltaan. Heille on annettu järki ja omatunto, ja heidän on toimittava toisiaan kohtaan veljeyden hengessä.
Saami, Northern Buot olbmot leat riegádan friddjan ja olmmošárvvu ja olmmošvuoigatvuoðaid dáfus dássásažžab, Sudhuude kea addib huervnu ha ianedivdym ha vyigjat gakget neabbydut gyunnuudeaset gyivdy vuekhakaš vuoiŋŋain.
Hungarian Minden. emberi lény szabadon születik és egyenlő méltósága és joga van. Az emberek, ésszel és lelkiismerettel bírván, egymással szemben testvéri szellemben kell hogy viseltessenek.
Estonian Kõik inimesed sünnivad vabadena ja võrdsetena oma väärikuselt ja õigustelt. Neile on antud mõistus ja südametunnistus ja nende suhtumist üksteisesse peab kandma vendluse vaim.

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Uralic languages vulnerability

This table summarizes the vulnerability of various Uralic 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
Livonian liv Latvia Critically endangered (4)
South Saami sma Norway, Sweden Severely endangered (3)
Lule Saami smj Norway, Sweden Severely endangered (3)
Csángó Hungarian hun Romania Severely endangered (3)
Western Mari mrj Russian Federation Severely endangered (3)
Võro-Seto est Estonia, Russian Federation Definitely endangered (2)
Eastern Mari mhr Russian Federation Definitely endangered (2)
Komi kpv Russian Federation Definitely endangered (2)
Udmurt udm Russian Federation Definitely endangered (2)
North Saami sme Finland, Norway, Russian Federation, Sweden Definitely endangered (2)
Olonetsian olo Finland, Russian Federation Definitely endangered (2)
Erzya myv Russian Federation Definitely endangered (2)

See also